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USS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
UserFS provides egalitarian OS protection mechanisms in Linux. UserFS allows any user--not just the system administrator--to allocate Unix user IDs, to use chroot, and to set up f...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
The protection mechanisms of current mainstream operating systems are inadequate to support confidentiality and integrity requirements for end systems. Mandatory access control (M...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
In Linux, applications like su and login currently run as root in order to access authentication information and set or alter the identity of the process. In such cases, if the ap...
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Complexity in commodity operating systems makes compromises inevitable. Consequently, a great deal of work has examined how to protect security-critical portions of applications f...
SRDS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
A large class of security attacks exploit software implementation vulnerabilities such as unchecked buffers. This paper proposes Transparent Runtime Randomization (TRR), a general...