Cascade and ZenHammer at USENIX Security

COMSEC presented two papers at USENIX Security 2024 this month. Cascade shows that generating highly randomized but valid programs is highly effective in finding bugs in open-source RISC-V CPUs. In fact, it finds more bugs than all previous hardware fuzzers combined! ZenHammer shows how one can trigger bit flips from AMD Zen-based CPUs. ZenHammer triggered the first publicly known DDR5 bit flips from an AMD Zen 4 CPU!