What is Anti-rollback protection?

A mechanism recording a minimum version number in unchangeable storage so software cannot be reverted to older vulnerable versions.

Field: Hardware Security

Related terms

Cold boot attack Constant-time implementation Counterfeit chip eFuse Fault injection attack Hardware Trojan Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI) Measured boot Meltdown Physically unclonable function (PUF)

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