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LCTRTS
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
An approach to improving the structure of error-handling code in the linux kernel
nguage does not provide any abstractions for exception handling or other forms of error handling, leaving programmers to devise their own conventions for detecting and handling er...
Suman Saha, Julia L. Lawall, Gilles Muller
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Ensuring operating system kernel integrity with OSck
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 ...
Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Indraj...
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Hypervisor Support for Identifying Covertly Executing Binaries
Hypervisors have been proposed as a security tool to defend against malware that subverts the OS kernel. However, hypervisors must deal with the semantic gap between the low-level...
Lionel Litty, H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Davi...