Starbleed Vulnerability - A new security bug that impacts Xilinx FPGA chipsets.- Why is it important? - These chips are in many safety-critical applications today, from cloud data centers and mobile phone base stations to encrypted USB-sticks and industrial control systems

. This vulnerability allows an attacker to crack the bitstream encryption and tamper with the operations stored inside the bitstream, allowing the attacker to load their own malicious code on vulnerable devices. Intellectual properties included in the bitstream can be stolen. It is also possible to insert hardware Trojans into the FPGA by manipulating the bitstream.


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