Hardware devices can fail, but many drivers assume they do not. When confronted with real
devices that misbehave, these assumptions can lead to driver or system failures. While …

Malicious peripherals designed to attack their host computers are a growing problem.
Inexpensive and powerful peripherals that attach to plug-and-play buses have made such …

Paravirtualization is an important I/O virtualization technology since it uniquely provides all
of the following benefits: the ability to share the device between multiple VMs, support for …

This paper presents Packet Chasing, an attack on the network that does not require access
to the network, and works regardless of the privilege level of the process receiving the …

Self-protection has recently raised growing interest as possible element of answer to the
cloud computing infrastructure protection challenge. Faced with multiple threats and …

Driver Analyzer 400 second operating system or a second processor platform, handling, by
the generic device driver, interfaces between the first operating system, the peripheral …

Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have
unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such …

Device drivers on Linux-powered embedded or IoT systems execute in kernel space thus
must be fully trusted. Any fault in drivers may significantly impact the whole system …

Software-based fault-tolerant techniques at the operating system level are an effective way
to enhance the reliability of safety-critical embedded applications. This paper provides an …

Operating systems adopt kernel protection methods (eg, mandatory access control, kernel
address space layout randomization, control flow integrity, and kernel page table isolation) …