New ARM ‘TIKTAG’ Attack Impacts Google Chrome, Linux Systems

Memory corruption lets attackers hijack control flow, execute code, elevate privileges, and leak data. ARM’s Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) aims to mitigate by tagging memory and checking tags on access.  The following researchers found speculative execution attacks can leak MTE tags via new TIKTAG gadgets exploiting branch prediction, prefetchers, and store-to-load forwarding.  Cybersecurity analysts developed […]

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