What’s RAMBleed? Steal Sensitive Data From Computer Memory

RAMBleed is a side-channel attack that enables an attacker to read out physical memory belonging to other processes. The implications of violating arbitrary privilege boundaries are numerous, and vary in severity based on the other software running on the target machine. As an example, in our paper we demonstrate an attack against OpenSSH in which we use RAMBleed to leak a 2048 bit RSA key. However, RAMBleed can be used for reading other data as well.

What’s redhat-upgrade-tool?

The redhat-upgrade-tool provides a way to upgrade Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The redhat-upgrade-tool command is a program to collect the information for upgrade and prepare the environment. It includes downloading kernel, and initial ram image, and packages.