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Firmware-Analysis-Papers

A single-README reading list of 28 academic security papers on firmware and embedded-system analysis, grouped by year from 2013 to 2021. It covers rehosting and emulation, firmware fuzzing, symbolic execution, Bluetooth and baseband analysis and bug detection in Linux-based and bare-metal firmware. Each entry is a title linked to a PDF or publisher page, with its venue such as USENIX Security, NDSS, IEEE S&P or CCS.

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Firmware
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Sources reviewed

Requirements & limits

  • The reviewed README, last changed 2021-08-30, lists 28 papers: 10 from 2021, 7 from 2020, 4 from 2019, one from 2018 and 6 under “2017 and Before”, the oldest from 2013. The list has not been updated since, so later work such as Fuzzware (USENIX Security 2022) is absent.
  • Entries give only a title, a link and a venue label, with no summaries, code, artifact or citation details. Most links go to PDFs on conference, author or arXiv sites; the rest go to an IEEE Xplore page, ResearchGate, or ACM Digital Library URLs carrying session tokens, which may stop working. Year labels can differ from publication years: Firmadyne is labeled NDSS 2017, matching its link's 2017 upload folder, while this collection's paper directory records it as NDSS 2016.
  • Three listed papers, Firmadyne, FirmAE and HALucinator, already have records in this collection's paper directory, and the FirmAE tool and avatar², the successor to the listed Avatar framework, are curated tool entries; the other entries were not reviewed here.
  • The repository holds only README.md and no license file, so the list states no reuse terms; the papers keep their authors' and publishers' rights. An independent reading list; the reviewed source establishes no REA connection.

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  1. README.md GitHub · onehouwong/Firmware-Analysis-Papers · Revision 3cfec53

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