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Hardware bugs are NOT the major source of widely-exploited vulnerabilities in practice. They're a tiny fraction of exploits being used in the wild, and certainl
by marcoperaza 10y ago
Hardware bugs are NOT the major source of widely-exploited vulnerabilities in practice. They're a tiny fraction of exploits being used in the wild, and certainly of the ones being used to target the general population.
Further, a buffer overflow is absolutely not a defect in how hardware allocates memory. It's a logical flaw in the software that reads/writes beyond the limits of the memory the programmer intended to access.
- mistaken 10y agoIt's also worth noting that some critical hardware components (e.g. CPUs since the infamous division bug) are formally verified as well, so manufacturing defects should be the largest concern for them.
- AstralStorm 10y agoOnly a tiny fraction of the CPU is formally verified. There are frequent errata. And plenty of undefined behaviour as well as races you can hit if you really try.