Dirty Bin Cache: A New Code Injection Poisoning Binary Translation Cache

In recent years, Arm processors have become popular on laptops, not limited to embedded devices. For example, Apple announced the Mac transition from Intel to Arm-based Apple Silicon in 2020, which made a big splash. Apple Silicon Mac has Rosetta 2, which enables the execution of Intel-based apps by translating x64 code into Arm64 code. Several researchers have conducted research on Rosetta 2 from a performance perspective. However, to our best knowledge, there is no research on Rosetta 2 from …

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