2 papers
cs.CR2020
Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks
Andrea Mambretti, Alexandra Sandulescu, Alessandro Sorniotti +3
The prevalence of memory corruption bugs in the past decades resulted in numerous defenses, such as stack canaries, control flow integrity (CFI), and memory safe languages. These d…
cs.CR2019
SMoTherSpectre: exploiting speculative execution through port contention
Atri Bhattacharyya, Alexandra Sandulescu, Matthias Neugschwandtner +4
Spectre, Meltdown, and related attacks have demonstrated that kernels, hypervisors, trusted execution environments, and browsers are prone to information disclosure through micro-a…