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New Spectre/Meltdown Variants: MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime
- allanberger 9y agoMeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols "The recent Meltdown [9] and Spectre [8] attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerabilities. We have developed a tool for automatically synthesizing microarchitecture-specific programs capable of producing any user-specified hardware execution pattern of interest."