Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time

'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile

In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may not be as effective as first hoped.…

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