A Comprehensive Memory Safety Analysis of Bootloaders
Wang, Jianqiang, Wang, Meng, Wang, Qinying, Langius, Nils, Shi, Li, Abbasi, Ali, Holz, Thorsten • 2025
@inproceedings{wang2025bootloader,
title={A Comprehensive Memory Safety Analysis of Bootloaders},
author={Wang, Jianqiang and Wang, Meng and Wang, Qinying and Langius, Nils and Shi, Li and Abbasi, Ali and Holz, Thorsten},
booktitle={Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)},
year={2025},
month={February},
abstract={Bootloaders are critical components in the boot chain of modern systems, responsible for initializing hardware and loading the operating system. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of memory safety vulnerabilities in popular bootloader implementations.},
tags={System Security, Memory Safety}
}