2 papers
cs.CR2026
dfence: Fine-Grained Speculation Barriers for Efficient and Effective Hardware-Software Protection in the Spectre Era (Extended Version)
Davide Davoli, Marton Bognar, Lesly-Ann Daniel +3
Speculative execution attacks such as Spectre-PHT and Spectre-STL remain a critical security concern in modern processors. While software-based mitigations like Speculative Load Ha…
cs.CR2024
Comprehensive Kernel Safety in the Spectre Era: Mitigations and Performance Evaluation (Extended Version)
Davide Davoli, Martin Avanzini, Tamara Rezk
The efficacy of address space layout randomization has been formally demonstrated in a shared-memory model by Abadi et al., contingent on specific assumptions about victim programs…