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technology6 months ago

GPUHammer Attack Severely Impairs AI Accuracy on Nvidia GDDR6 GPUs

Researchers from the University of Toronto demonstrated that GPUHammer, a RowHammer-style attack, can induce single-bit flips in GDDR6 memory on NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs, drastically reducing AI model accuracy from 80% to below 1%. The attack exploits vulnerabilities in DRAM banks, but enabling ECC can mitigate the risk. The vulnerability affects certain high-end GPUs but not others like the RTX 5090 or data center cards with HBM memory.

technology6 months ago

GPUHammer: New RowHammer Attack Threatening NVIDIA GPUs

Researchers have demonstrated GPUHammer, a new RowHammer attack variant targeting NVIDIA GPUs that can cause severe degradation of AI model accuracy by inducing bit flips in GPU memory. The attack poses significant risks to AI infrastructure, especially in shared environments, and can be mitigated by enabling ECC, though at some performance cost. This development highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in GPU memory security and the importance of robust defenses for AI systems.