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| Systemic threats to hypervisor non-control data | |
| Ding, Baozeng; He, Yeping; Wu, Yanjun; Yu, Jiageng | |
| 2013 | |
| Source | IET INFORMATION SECURITY
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| ISSN | 1751-8709 |
| Volume | 7Issue:4Pages:349-354 |
| English Abstract | Hypervisors are becoming a widespread virtualisation layer in current computer systems. Recent successful attacks against hypervisors indicate that they face the similar integrity threats as traditional operating systems. Current approaches that secure hypervisors mainly focus on code or control-data integrity, without paying attention to non-control data integrity. In this study the authors construct attacks that target hypervisor non-control data to demonstrate which types of data within the Xen hypervisor are critical to system security. It shows privilege, resource utilisation and security policy related data are vulnerable to return-oriented programming or DMA attacks. By modifying their values from one to another, the whole system's performance will be affected. By discussing current approaches that secure hypervisors, which are not suitable for non-control data, the work is to motivate new innovation in this area to protect them.; Hypervisors are becoming a widespread virtualisation layer in current computer systems. Recent successful attacks against hypervisors indicate that they face the similar integrity threats as traditional operating systems. Current approaches that secure hypervisors mainly focus on code or control-data integrity, without paying attention to non-control data integrity. In this study the authors construct attacks that target hypervisor non-control data to demonstrate which types of data within the Xen hypervisor are critical to system security. It shows privilege, resource utilisation and security policy related data are vulnerable to return-oriented programming or DMA attacks. By modifying their values from one to another, the whole system's performance will be affected. By discussing current approaches that secure hypervisors, which are not suitable for non-control data, the work is to motivate new innovation in this area to protect them. |
| Indexed Type | SCI |
| Keyword | Data Integrity Security Of Data Virtualisation Systemic Threats Hypervisor Noncontrol Data Virtualisation Layer Computer Systems Secure Hypervisors Data Integrity Xen Hypervisor System Security Return-oriented Programming Dma Attacks |
| Department | [Ding, Baozeng; He, Yeping; Wu, Yanjun; Yu, Jiageng] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Software, Natl Engn Res Ctr Fundamental Software, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China. [Ding, Baozeng; Yu, Jiageng] Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China. |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:000328457400012 |
| Citation statistics | |
| Content Type | 期刊论文 |
| URI | http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/16896 |
| Collection | 中国科学院软件研究所 |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Ding, Baozeng,He, Yeping,Wu, Yanjun,et al. Systemic threats to hypervisor non-control data[J]. IET INFORMATION SECURITY,2013,7(4):349-354. |
| APA | Ding, Baozeng,He, Yeping,Wu, Yanjun,&Yu, Jiageng.(2013).Systemic threats to hypervisor non-control data.IET INFORMATION SECURITY,7(4),349-354. |
| MLA | Ding, Baozeng,et al."Systemic threats to hypervisor non-control data".IET INFORMATION SECURITY 7.4(2013):349-354. |
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