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AVGI: Microarchitecture-Driven, Fast and Accurate Vulnerability Assessment


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We propose AVGI, a new Statistical Fault Injection (SFI)-based methodology, which delivers orders of magnitude faster assessment of the Architectural Vulnerability Factor...Show More

Abstract:

We propose AVGI, a new Statistical Fault Injection (SFI)-based methodology, which delivers orders of magnitude faster assessment of the Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) of a microprocessor chip, while retaining the high accuracy of SFI. The proposed methodology is based on three key insights about the way that faults traverse complex out-of-order microarchitectures: (1) the distribution of the different ways that hardware faults manifest at the software (i.e., the first effects of faults to the software layer) is relatively uniform across workloads, (2) the final effects of faults in a specific hardware structure (i.e., their effect on the program execution) is relatively uniform for different workloads and depends on the distribution of the above fault manifestations, and (3) the majority of first manifestations occur in certain timeframe from the fault occurrence, which is significantly shorter than the complete execution of the workload, and depends on the type of hardware structure. Based on these insights, the proposed AVGI methodology accurately estimates the complete cross-layer vulnerability (i.e., AVF) for every hardware structure in fine granularity (SDCs and Crashes). Our experimental analysis shows that preserving high levels of accuracy, the proposed AVF assessment methodology is up to 337x and 440x faster than an accelerated exhaustive SFI, for two different microarchitectures of 64-bit Armv8 and 32-bit Armv7 CPU models, respectively.
Date of Conference: 25 February 2023 - 01 March 2023
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 24 March 2023
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Conference Location: Montreal, QC, Canada

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