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Fuzzerfly Effect: Hardware Fuzzing for Memory Safety

Cryptography and Security 2024-10-31 v1
Authors: Mohamadreza Rostami , Chen Chen , Rahul Kande , Huimin Li , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
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Abstract

Hardware-level memory vulnerabilities severely threaten computing systems. However, hardware patching is inefficient or difficult postfabrication. We investigate the effectiveness of hardware fuzzing in detecting hardware memory vulnerabilities and highlight challenges and potential future research directions to enhance hardware fuzzing for memory safety.

Keywords

fuzzing side-channel attack memory hierarchy

Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.22561,
  title  = {Fuzzerfly Effect: Hardware Fuzzing for Memory Safety},
  author = {Mohamadreza Rostami and Chen Chen and Rahul Kande and Huimin Li and Jeyavijayan Rajendran and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22561},
  year   = {2024}
}

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