Re: CVE-2022-38392: 5400 RPM hard drives resonant-frequency attack with music video

VanguardLH <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Organization Usenet Elder
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]> wrote:

> NVD - CVE-2022-38392
> <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38392>
> 
> Current Description
> 
> Certain 5400 RPM hard drives, for laptops and other PCs in approximately 
> 2005 and later, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial 
> of service (device malfunction and system crash) via a 
> resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation 
> music video. A reported product is Seagate STDT4000100 763649053447.
> 
> Related:
> 
> 17 年前 OpenAI 工程師舊片翻紅 發現對著 HDD 大叫會令速度大幅減慢 - 電腦領域 
> <https://www.hkepc.com/26012/?
> 
> Shouting in the Datacenter - YouTube
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4>

But couldn't adjacent 5400 RPM HDDs generate vibrations at frequencies
to cause the same effect?  Be interesting to see what effect the same
testing (for the yell test) would disclose if the 5400 RPM HDDs were
physically separate into separate racks with each rack using vibration
dampeners.
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