Xi Tan

According to our database, Xi Tan authored at least 8 papers between 2023 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

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2025

"We just did not have that on the embedded system": Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF Competitions.

Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Alex Eastman, Kai Kaufman, Md. Armanuzzaman, Xi Tan, Katherine Jesse, Robert Walls, Ziming Zhao

CoRR, March, 2025

2024

Where's the "up"?! A Comprehensive (bottom-up) Study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M Systems.

Xi Tan, Zheyuan Ma, Sandro Pinto, Le Guan, Ning Zhang, Jun Xu, Zhiqiang Lin, Hongxin Hu, Ziming Zhao

CoRR, 2024

SoK: Where's the "up"?! A Comprehensive (bottom-up) Study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M Systems.

Xi Tan, Zheyuan Ma, Sandro Pinto, Le Guan, Ning Zhang, Jun Xu, Zhiqiang Lin, Hongxin Hu, Ziming Zhao

Proceedings of the 18th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies, 2024

Trusted Execution Environments in Embedded and IoT Systems: A CactiLab Perspective.

Ziming Zhao, Md. Armanuzzaman, Xi Tan, Zheyuan Ma

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design, 2024

Is the Canary Dead? On the Effectiveness of Stack Canaries on Microcontroller Systems.

Xi Tan, Sagar Mohan, Md. Armanuzzaman, Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Alex Eastman, Hongxin Hu, Ziming Zhao

Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 2024

InsectACIDE: Debugger-Based Holistic Asynchronous CFI for Embedded System.

Yujie Wang, Cailani Lemieux Mack, Xi Tan, Ning Zhang, Ziming Zhao, Sanjoy K. Baruah, Bryan C. Ward

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2024

2023

Return-to-Non-Secure Vulnerabilities on ARM Cortex-M TrustZone: Attack and Defense.

Zheyuan Ma, Xi Tan, Lukasz Ziarek, Ning Zhang, Hongxin Hu, Ziming Zhao

Proceedings of the 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2023

SHERLOC: Secure and Holistic Control-Flow Violation Detection on Embedded Systems.

Xi Tan, Ziming Zhao

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023