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In June, Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone detailed an in-the-wild exploit for the Pixel 6, where bugs in the ARM GPU driver could let a non-privileged user get write access to read-only memory.
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Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2022
The trick was to leverage the HDMI cable's I2C EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory).
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2022
In addition to the 36k words of read-only memory for the core programming, the AGC had a trivial 2k words of RAM—necessary for the operating system, process management, recovery, and global variables for all mission phases.
—Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
Because the bootrom is contained in read-only memory inside a chip, jailbreak vulnerabilities that reside there can't be patched.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2019
This speculative execution can even do other things that wouldn't be allowed: for example, Intel processors allow speculative writes to be made to read-only memory, giving even more power to an attacker.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
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Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2022
The trick was to leverage the HDMI cable's I2C EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory).
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2022
In addition to the 36k words of read-only memory for the core programming, the AGC had a trivial 2k words of RAM—necessary for the operating system, process management, recovery, and global variables for all mission phases.
—Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
Because the bootrom is contained in read-only memory inside a chip, jailbreak vulnerabilities that reside there can't be patched.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2019
This speculative execution can even do other things that wouldn't be allowed: for example, Intel processors allow speculative writes to be made to read-only memory, giving even more power to an attacker.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
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“Read-only memory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/read-only%20memory. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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