2 papers
cs.CR2026
ARM MTE Performance in Practice (Extended Version)
Taehyun Noh, Yingchen Wang, Tal Garfinkel +4
We present the first comprehensive analysis of ARM MTE hardware performance on four different microarchitectures: ARM Big (A7x), Little (A5x), and Performance (Cortex-X) cores on t…
cs.CR2025
SMaCk: Efficient Instruction Cache Attacks via Self-Modifying Code Conflicts
Seonghun Son, Daniel Moghimi, Berk Gulmezoglu
Self-modifying code (SMC) allows programs to alter their own instructions, optimizing performance and functionality on x86 processors. Despite its benefits, SMC introduces unique m…