Emanuele's Log

Welcome at emavan.com.
I’m a software engineer based in Amsterdam. I like coding and reasoning about security.

Currently, I’m working on Rust and memory safety projects during my free time.
I may use this site to dump any kind of note which reckon worth to share.
Use them at your own risk!

Do you want to connect? You can find me on linkedin.

latest posts

Jun 7, 2026	Writing Constant-Time Rust Is Not Enough
Dec 14, 2025	Rust MIR Instrumentation
Jan 20, 2025	(Rust) Pointers provenance is real

Publications and Talks

USENIX Security

Speculation at Fault: Modeling and Testing Microarchitectural Leakage of CPU Exceptions

Jana Hofmann, Emanuele Vannacci, Cedric Fournet, and 2 more authors

In USENIX Security, Aug 2023

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{hofmann_speculation_2023,
  title = {Speculation at {Fault}: {Modeling} and {Testing} {Microarchitectural} {Leakage} of {CPU} {Exceptions}},
  booktitle = {{USENIX} {Security}},
  author = {Hofmann, Jana and Vannacci, Emanuele and Fournet, Cedric and Köpf, Boris and Oleksenko, Oleksii},
  month = aug,
  year = {2023},
  keywords = {artifacts:available, artifacts:functional, artifacts:reproduced, class\_sidechannels, proj\_intersect, type\_ae, type\_conf, type\_paper, type\_tier1, type\_top},
}

USENIX Security

SMASH: Synchronized Many-sided Rowhammer Attacks From JavaScript

Finn Ridder, Pietro Frigo, Emanuele Vannacci, and 3 more authors

In USENIX Security, Aug 2021

Pwnie Award Nomination for Most Under-Hyped Research, Best Faculty of Science Master Thesis Award

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{de_ridder_smash_2021,
  title = {{SMASH}: {Synchronized} {Many}-sided {Rowhammer} {Attacks} {From} {JavaScript}},
  booktitle = {{USENIX} {Security}},
  author = {de Ridder, Finn and Frigo, Pietro and Vannacci, Emanuele and Bos, Herbert and Giuffrida, Cristiano and Razavi, Kaveh},
  month = aug,
  year = {2021},
  note = {Pwnie Award Nomination for Most Under-Hyped Research, Best Faculty of Science Master Thesis Award},
  keywords = {class\_rowhammer, proj\_offcore, proj\_panta, proj\_react, proj\_unicore, type\_award, type\_conf, type\_csec, type\_mscthesis, type\_paper, type\_tier1, type\_top},
}

HITB

A journey into the secret flaws of in-DRAM RowHammer mitigations

Emanuele Vannacci, and Pietro Frigo

Aug 2020

HITB Singapore

Bib

@unpublished{HITB_Singapore,
  title = {A journey into the secret flaws of in-DRAM RowHammer mitigations},
  author = {Vannacci, Emanuele and Frigo, Pietro},
  year = {2020},
  note = {HITB Singapore},
  url = {https://conference.hitb.org/hitb-lockdown002/sessions/a-journey-into-the-secret-flaws-of-in-dram-rowhammer-mitigations/},
}

IEEE S&P

TRRespass: Exploiting the Many Sides of Target Row Refresh

Pietro Frigo, Emanuele Vannacci, Hasan Hassan, and 5 more authors

In S&P, May 2020

Best Paper Award, Pwnie Award for Most Innovative Research, IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention, DCSR Paper Award

Bib PDF Supp Code

@inproceedings{frigo_trrespass_2020,
  title = {{TRRespass}: {Exploiting} the {Many} {Sides} of {Target} {Row} {Refresh}},
  booktitle = {S\&{P}},
  author = {Frigo, Pietro and Vannacci, Emanuele and Hassan, Hasan and van der Veen, Victor and Mutlu, Onur and Giuffrida, Cristiano and Bos, Herbert and Razavi, Kaveh},
  month = may,
  year = {2020},
  note = {Best Paper Award, Pwnie Award for Most Innovative Research, IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention, DCSR Paper Award},
  keywords = {class\_rowhammer, proj\_offcore, proj\_panta, proj\_react, proj\_unicore, proj\_vici, type\_award, type\_conf, type\_cve\_assigned, type\_paper, type\_press, type\_tier1, type\_top},
}