StackWarp: Breaking AMD SEV-SNP Integrity via Deterministic Stack-Pointer Manipulation through the CPU's Stack Engine

In this paper, the authors present StackWarp, a software-based architectural attack exploiting the stack engine on AMD Zen CPUs to modify the stack pointer within an SEV-SNP guest, fully breaking integrity...

PT-2026-3202

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Microarchitectural Attacks on the Stack Engine

Summary Researchers from ETH Zurich have published a paper titled “One Flew over the Stack Engine’s Nest: Practical Microarchitectural Attacks on the Stack Engine.” AMD continues to recommend software developers employ existing best practices including constant time algorithm and avoid...

SUSE CVE-2006-3635

The ia64 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack consumption and system crash via a crafted application that leverages the mishandling of invalid Register Stack Engine RSE state...

CVE-2006-3635

The ia64 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack consumption and system crash via a crafted application that leverages the mishandling of invalid Register Stack Engine RSE state...