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Towards Reinforcement Learning for Exploration of Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

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arxiv 2502.16756 v2 pith:DPPCWZLU submitted 2025-02-24 cs.CR cs.AI

Towards Reinforcement Learning for Exploration of Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

classification cs.CR cs.AI
keywords speculativeexecutionlearningreinforcementvulnerabilitiesattacksblackdeep
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Speculative attacks such as Spectre can leak secret information without being discovered by the operating system. Speculative execution vulnerabilities are finicky and deep in the sense that to exploit them, it requires intensive manual labor and intimate knowledge of the hardware. In this paper, we introduce SpecRL, a framework that utilizes reinforcement learning to find speculative execution leaks in post-silicon (black box) microprocessors.

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