Injecting Software Vulnerabilities with Voltage Glitching

2019/02/14 by Yifan Lu, Lu, Yifan
Computer Science · Engineering · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security #Radiation Effects in Electronics #Security and Verification in Computing

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1903.08102

openalex publication_date 2019/02/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We show how voltage glitching can cause timing violations in CMOS behavior. Then we attack a real, security hardened, consumer device to gain code execution and dump the secure boot ROM.

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