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most citedTheHuzz: Instruction Fuzzing of Processors Using Golden-Reference Models for Finding Software-Exploitable Vulnerabilities

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cs.CR2026

AttackonCTF: Defending Hardware Security Competition Benchmarks in the Age of LLMs

Mohamadreza Rostami, Nikhilesh Singh, Stephen Muttathil +5

Hardware security competitions such as HackTheSilicon serve as benchmarking platforms for evaluating vulnerability detection methods and for training humans and AI. However, our st…

cs.CR2025

ReFuzz: Reusing Tests for Processor Fuzzing with Contextual Bandits

Chen Chen, Zaiyan Xu, Mohamadreza Rostami +4

Processor designs rely on iterative modifications and reuse well-established designs. However, this reuse of prior designs also leads to similar vulnerabilities across multiple pro…

cs.CR2024

LLMPirate: LLMs for Black-box Hardware IP Piracy

Vasudev Gohil, Matthew DeLorenzo, Veera Vishwa Achuta Sai Venkat Nallam +2

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled the ability to effectively analyze and generate code nearly instantaneously, resulting in their widespread adoptio…

cs.CR2024★ 8 cited

Fuzzerfly Effect: Hardware Fuzzing for Memory Safety

Mohamadreza Rostami, Chen Chen, Rahul Kande +3

Hardware-level memory vulnerabilities severely threaten computing systems. However, hardware patching is inefficient or difficult postfabrication. We investigate the effectiveness…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

Lost and Found in Speculation: Hybrid Speculative Vulnerability Detection

Mohamadreza Rostami, Shaza Zeitouni, Rahul Kande +5

Microarchitectural attacks represent a challenging and persistent threat to modern processors, exploiting inherent design vulnerabilities in processors to leak sensitive informatio…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

WhisperFuzz: White-Box Fuzzing for Detecting and Locating Timing Vulnerabilities in Processors

Pallavi Borkar, Chen Chen, Mohamadreza Rostami +5

Timing vulnerabilities in processors have emerged as a potent threat. As processors are the foundation of any computing system, identifying these flaws is imperative. Recently fuzz…