Title :

Reproducing Spectre Attack with gem5: How To Do It Right?

Author(s) :

Ayoub, Pierre [Auteur]
Eurecom [Sophia Antipolis]
Maurice, Clementine [Auteur]
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]

Conference title :

14th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec'21)

City :

Edinburgh

Country :

Royaume-Uni

Start date of the conference :

2021-04-26

Publication date :

2021-04-26

English keyword(s) :

Reproducibility
Micro-architecture
Branch Predictor
Cache Side-Channel
Flush+Reload
Transient Execution Attack
Spectre
Simulation
gem5

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

English abstract : [en]

As processors become more and more complex due to performance optimizations and energy savings, new attack surfaces raise. We know that the micro-architecture of a processor leaks some information into the architectural ...
Show more >As processors become more and more complex due to performance optimizations and energy savings, new attack surfaces raise. We know that the micro-architecture of a processor leaks some information into the architectural domain. Moreover, some mechanisms like speculative execution can be exploited to execute malicious instructions. As a consequence, it allows a process to spy another process or to steal data. These attacks are consequences of fundamental design issues, thus they are complicated to fix and reproduce. Simulation would be of a great help for scientific research for microarchitectural security, but it also leads to new challenges. We try to address the first challenges to demonstrate that simulation could be useful in research and an interesting technique to develop in the future.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

ARCHI-SEC: Sécurité au niveau des micro-architectures

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL