On the effectiveness of virtualization based memory isolation on multicore platforms

• Main Authors: ZHAO, Siqi, DING, Xuhua
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: android; call graph; dependency; information retrieval; program analysis; program comprehension; Databases and Information Systems; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3699; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4701/viewcontent/fimce_eurosp17__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Virtualization based memory isolation has beenwidely used as a security primitive in many security systems.This paper firstly provides an in-depth analysis of itseffectiveness in the multicore setting; a first in the literature.Our study reveals that memory isolation by itself is inadequatefor secur...