Fuzzerfly Effect: Hardware Fuzzing for Memory Safety
Mohamadreza Rostami, Chen Chen, Rahul Kande, Huimin Li, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
TL;DR
This work investigates the effectiveness of hardware fuzzing in detecting hardware memory vulnerabilities and highlights challenges and potential future research directions to enhance hardware fuzzing for memory safety.
Abstract
Hardware-level memory vulnerabilities severely threaten computing systems. However, hardware patching is inefficient or difficult postfabrication. We investigate the effectiveness of hardware fuzzing in detecting hardware memory vulnerabilities and highlight challenges and potential future research directions to enhance hardware fuzzing for memory safety.