Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in CUDA: a preliminary analysis
EPFL, LACAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
arXiv:1506.08546 [cs.CR], (29 Jun 2015)
@article{miele2015buffer,
title={Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in CUDA: a preliminary analysis},
author={Miele, Andrea},
year={2015},
month={jun},
archivePrefix={"arXiv"},
primaryClass={cs.CR}
}
We present a preliminary study of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in CUDA software running on GPUs. We show how an attacker can overrun a buffer to corrupt sensitive data or steer the execution flow by overwriting function pointers, e.g., manipulating the virtual table of a C++ object. In view of a potential mass market diffusion of GPU accelerated software this may be a major concern.
July 1, 2015 by hgpu
