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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1961, in the meaning defined above
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“Read-only memory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/read-only%20memory. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
read-only memory
noun
read-on·ly memory
ˈrēd-ˈōn-lē-
: ROM
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