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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...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
Commodity operating systems achieve good performance by running device drivers in-kernel. Unfortunately, this architecture offers poor fault isolation. This paper introduces micro...
USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...
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...