bugdoor

plural bugdoors

1. computingA security vulnerability caused by a bug that was intentionally added by the vendor.

   a novel, minimalist approach to constructing deniable bugdoors for microcontroller firmware

   2014 December 8, Samuel Junjie Tan, Sergey Bratus, Travis Goodspeed, “Interrupt-oriented bugdoor programming: a minimalist approach to bugdooring embedded systems firmware”, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '14), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 116–125

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   provide the cover of plausible deniability for attackers in the form of exploitable “bugdoor” attacks

   2024 April 13, Mario Lins, René Mayrhofer, Michael Roland, Daniel Hofer, Martin Schwaighofer, “On the critical path to implant backdoors and the effectiveness of potential mitigation techniques: Early learnings from XZ”, in arXiv, →DOI