Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>Boffins from ETH Zurich have devised a novel <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fuzzer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fuzzer</span></a> for finding bugs in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RISCV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RISCV</span></a> chips and have used it to find more than three dozen. <br>When applied to six actual RISC-V <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a> – <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/VexRiscv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VexRiscv</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PicoRV32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PicoRV32</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Kronos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kronos</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CVA6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CVA6</span></a>, Rocket, and BOOM – Cascade found 37 new bugs (translating to 29 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CVE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CVE</span></a>) in five of these six designs. <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/cascade_fuzzer_zurich/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2023/10/24/cas</span><span class="invisible">cade_fuzzer_zurich/</span></a></p>