{
  "id": 800463,
  "title": "Domas: Bypassing memory protection with AMD's memory controllers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/domas-bypassing-memory-protection-with-amds-memory-controllers",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-13T19:06:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1088778/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Christopher Domas has published a proof of concept with a description showing how to use AMD memory controllers' bank swizzle mode to bypass memory protection and read or write arbitrary data, including CPU microcode definitions and memory belonging to the platform security processor . Among other things, this allows code running at the kernel level to directly manipulate the meaning of processor…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}