Spectre-style attacks disclosed in early 2018 expose data leakage scenarios via cache side
channels. Specifically, speculatively executed paths due to branch mis-prediction may bring …

The Spectre vulnerability in modern processors has been reported earlier this year (2018).
The key insight in this vulnerability is that speculative execution in processors can be …

The Spectre vulnerability in modern processors has been widely reported. The key insight in
this vulnerability is that speculative execution in processors can be misused to access the …

To improve processor performance, computer architects have adopted such acceleration
techniques as speculative execution and caching. However, researchers have recently …

Cache-based side channels are becoming an important attack vector through which secret
information can be leaked to malicious parties. implementations and Previous work on …

Spectre v1 attacks, which exploit conditional branch misprediction, are often identified with
attacks that bypass array bounds checking to leak data from a victim's memory. Generally …

Recent studies on attacks exploiting processor hardware vulnerabilities have raised
significant concern for information security. Particularly, transient execution attacks such as …

This paper studies information flow caused by speculation mechanisms in hardware and
software. The Spectre attack shows that there are practical information flow attacks which …

Recent security vulnerabilities that target speculative execution (eg, Spectre) present a
significant challenge for processor design. These highly publicized vulnerabilities use …

Speculative execution is an essential performance enhancing technique in modern
processors, but it has been shown to be insecure. In this paper, we propose SpectreGuard, a …