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arXiv:1903.08102cs.CR

Injecting Software Vulnerabilities with Voltage Glitching

Yifan Lu

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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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cs.CRCryptography and Security

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  1. Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020) 1 comment

    • Last I heard, it was doing some power glitching to bypass/nop-out some signature check or some such. There aren't much details in the public, but a very similar hack is publicly documented for the vita: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.08102.pdf .

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