4 papers
From Temporary Access to Persistent Surveillance: Why Matter Matters in Smart Homes
Nicolas Nino, Timothy Minning, Le Guan
Matter aims to unify smart home ecosystems through an open, interoperable, and secure standard, relying on cryptographic mechanisms for device authentication and data confidentiali…
SoK: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Emulation-Based Dynamic Analysis Research for ARM Cortex-M Firmware (Extended Version)
Hongyuan Li, Ke Wang, Wei Zhou +1
Microcontroller (MCU)-based devices are increasingly pervasive, making efficient, scalable firmware security analysis critical. Recent firmware re-hosting work enables automated vu…
Stop Starving or Stuffing Me: Boosting Firmware Fuzzing Efficiency with On-demand Input Delivery
Shandian Shen, Wei Zhou, Keming Zhao +3
Firmware fuzzing has gained attention for identifying firmware bugs. However, current approaches often directly integrate fuzzing tools for general software. General software recei…
SoK: Where's the "up"?! A Comprehensive (bottom-up) Study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M Systems
Xi Tan, Zheyuan Ma, Sandro Pinto +6
Arm Cortex-M processors are the most widely used 32-bit microcontrollers among embedded and Internet-of-Things devices. Despite the widespread usage, there has been little effort i…