(2022) Microarchitectural Leakage Templates and Their Application to Cache-Based Side Channels.
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Abstract
The complexity of modern processor architectures has given rise to sophisticated interactions among their components. Such interactions may result in potential attack vectors in terms of side channels, possibly available to userland exploits to leak secret data. Exploitation and countering of such side channels requires a detailed understanding of the target component. However, such detailed information is commonly unpublished for many CPUs. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Leakage Templates to abstractly describe specific side channels and identify their occurrences in binary applications. We design and implement PLUMBER, a framework to derive the generic Leakage Templates from individual code sequences that are known to cause leakage (e.g., found by prior work). PLUMBER uses a combination of instruction fuzzing, instructions' operand mutation and statistical analysis to explore undocumented behavior of microarchitectural optimizations and derive sufficient conditions on vulnerable code inputs that if hold can trigger a distinguishing behavior. Using PLUMBER we identified novel leakage primitives based on Leakage Templates (for ARM Cortex-A53 and -A72 cores), in particular related to previction (a new premature cache eviction), and prefetching behavior. We show the utility of Leakage Templates by re-identifying a prefetcher-based vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.1.0g first reported by Shin et al. [40].
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (A Paper) (Paper) |
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| Divisions: | Christian Rossow (System Security Group, SysSec) Hamed Nemati (HM) Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SCy-Phy) |
| Conference: | CCS ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security |
| Depositing User: | Till Schlüter |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2022 09:07 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2022 11:11 |
| Primary Research Area: | NRA3: Threat Detection and Defenses |
| URI: | https://publications.cispa.saarland/id/eprint/3775 |
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