Shuwen Deng

Leaky Frontends: Security Vulnerabilities in Processor Frontends

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper evaluates new security threats due to the processor frontend in modern Intel processors. The root causes of the security threats are the multiple paths in the processor frontend that the micro-operations can take: …

Ragnar: Exploring Volatile-Channel Vulnerabilities on RDMA NIC

2025

With the surge in data computation, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) becomes crucial to offering low-latency and highthroughput communication for data centers, but it faces new security threats. This paper presents RAGNAR, a comprehensive suite …