JITterFlip: Uncovering Fault Attack Surfaces in JIT-Compiled LLM Serving

arXiv:2608.29745 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-08-30

Code: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project

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Terminology

• Archetype — 28× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 15× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bit-Flip Attacks — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 9× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Target Row Refresh — 3× in this paper
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Invisible Hands: Gray-Box Bit Flip Attack for Steering LLMs Without Knowledge of Gradients, Data, and Weights
• SBFA: Single Sneaky Bit Flip Attack to Break Large Language Models
• TFL: Targeted Bit-Flip Attack on Large Language Model
• FlipLLM: Efficient Bit-Flip Attacks on Multimodal LLMs using Reinforcement Learning
• BitHydra: Towards Bit-flip Inference Cost Attack against Large Language Models
• A Survey of Large Language Models

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