DYNAMIC BINARY TRANSLATION TO SECURE PROCESSES FROM SPECULATIVE ROGUE CACHE LOADS

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a binary translator can perform address shifting on the binary code of an executing application. Address shifting serves to shift the addresses of memory operations that can access locations in the kernel address space into address locations...

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Main Authors Tsafrir, Dan, Wei, Michael, Amit, Nadav
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 08.08.2019
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a binary translator can perform address shifting on the binary code of an executing application. Address shifting serves to shift the addresses of memory operations that can access locations in the kernel address space into address locations in the user space, thus avoiding speculative access into the kernel address space.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201816004191