Glitching Demystified: Analyzing Control-flow-based Glitching Attacks and Defenses

• Published in: Proceedings - International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks pp. 400 - 412
• Main Authors: Spensky, Chad, Machiry, Aravind, Burow, Nathan, Okhravi, Hamed, Housley, Rick, Gu, Zhongshu, Jamjoom, Hani, Kruegel, Christopher, Vigna, Giovanni
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2021
• Subjects: attack; defense; embedded systems; Encoding; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; glitching; Hardware; Instruction sets; LLVM; Microcontrollers; static analysis

Hardware fault injection, or glitching, attacks can compromise the security of devices even when no software vulnerabilities exist. Attempts to analyze the hardware effects of glitching are subject to the Heisenberg effect and there is typically a disconnect between what people "think" is...