Morpheus II: A RISC-V Security Extension for Protecting Vulnerable Software and Hardware

Todd M. Austin, Austin Harris, Tarunesh Verma, Shijia Wei, Alex Kisil, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Valeria Bertacco, Baris Kasikci, Mohit Tiwari

Abstract: Software protects data • All software is (eventually) hackable • Finding/fixing vulnerabilities doesn’t scale • E.g., Malicious 7: buffer errors, code injection, numeric errors, permissions, resource mgt