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ACSAC
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
In current extensible monolithic operating systems, loadable kernel modules (LKM) have unrestricted access to all portions of kernel memory and I/O space. As a result, kernel-modu...
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
Kernel rootkits that modify operating system state to avoid detection are a dangerous threat to system security. This paper presents OSck, a system that discovers kernel rootkits ...
SOSP
1989
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
1989
ACM
The Synthesis operating system kernel combines several techniques to provide high performa.nce, incl1iding kernel code synthesis, fine-gra.in scheduling. and optimistic sylicllrol...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract—The traditional virtual machine usage model advocates placing security mechanisms in a trusted VM layer and letting the untrusted guest OS run unaware of the presence of...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...