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IEEEARES
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Defeating Dynamic Data Kernel Rootkit Attacks via VMM-Based Guest-Transparent Monitoring
—Targeting the operating system kernel, the core of trust in a system, kernel rootkits are able to compromise the entire system, placing it under malicious control, while eluding...
Junghwan Rhee, Ryan Riley, Dongyan Xu, Xuxian Jian...
DSN
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Characterization of Linux Kernel Behavior under Errors
This paper describes an experimental study of Linux kernel behavior in the presence of errors that impact the instruction stream of the kernel code. Extensive error injection exper...
Weining Gu, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iy...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Ksplice: automatic rebootless kernel updates
Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
Jeff Arnold, M. Frans Kaashoek
USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Code sandboxing is useful for many purposes, but most sandboxing techniques require kernel modifications, do not completely isolate guest code, or incur substantial performance co...
Bryan Ford, Russ Cox
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Sealing OS processes to improve dependability and safety
In most modern operating systems, a process is a -protected abstraction for isolating code and data. This protection, however, is selective. Many common mechanisms—dynamic code ...
Galen C. Hunt, Mark Aiken, Manuel Fähndrich, ...