STARM · HW-08 · HARDWARE

Unauthorized Memory Access

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STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Exploiting hardware flaws to read protected memory.

Severity in the dataset8/10

Not the paper’s H/M/L.

Target
Sensitive Data
Layer in the inventory
Registers / Cache
Mitigation
Hardware-level Memory Protection Units (MPU).
How the inventory says to fix it
Rule-based: Hardware-enforced enclaves (TEE/Enclave) and MPU boundary checks.
Quick fix
Partitioning
ML approaches named
Random Forest, SVM, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Networks, Unsupervised Learning for Zero-Day Threats
Methodology
Low-Level Memory Access Pattern Analysis, Deep Learning on Memory Dump, Behavioral Profiling (Baseline Creation)
Handler role
Firmware Developer
Stage
Design
Standard named
ISO/IEC 27002
Status in the inventory
Partially managed

STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Connection recorded in the inventory

Buffer Overflows