Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAlibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V chips blow away all securitywww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkAlibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V chips blow away all securitywww.theregister.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
Research Paper: RISCVuzz: Discovering Architectural CPU Vulnerabilities via Differential Hardware Fuzzing
minus-squareAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoThis seems like a pretty major bug. From my understanding, any code can run with full privileges when running on this CPU. Some interesting discussion points at the end of the article about how RISC-V as an ISA could make it more difficult to mitigate such flaws.
minus-squarebreakingcups@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s an incredibly bad bug and I can’t believe it was shipped this way.
This seems like a pretty major bug. From my understanding, any code can run with full privileges when running on this CPU.
Some interesting discussion points at the end of the article about how RISC-V as an ISA could make it more difficult to mitigate such flaws.
It’s an incredibly bad bug and I can’t believe it was shipped this way.