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bugdoor

bugdoor noun: a security vulnerability caused by a bug that was intentionally added by the vendor.

Noun

bugdoor (plural bugdoors)

  1. A security vulnerability caused by a bug that was intentionally added by the vendor.
    • a novel, minimalist approach to constructing deniable bugdoors for microcontroller firmware2014 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...
    • provide the cover of plausible deniability for attackers in the form of exploitable “bugdoor” attacks2024 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...

Forms of bugdoor

pluralbugdoors

Questions about bugdoor

What does bugdoor mean?
Bugdoor means a security vulnerability caused by a bug that was intentionally added by the vendor.
What part of speech is bugdoor?
Bugdoor is a noun.
What is the plural of bugdoor?
The plural of bugdoor is bugdoors.

Words near bugdoor in the dictionary

  1. bugchecks
  2. Bugden
  3. bugdi
  4. bugdis
  5. bugdom
  6. bugdoor
  7. bugdoors
  8. buge
  9. bugerow
  10. bugerows
  11. Bugess

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