Defeating return-oriented rootkits with return-less kernels
The work
| Authors | Jinku Li; Zhi Wang; Xuxian Jiang; Michael C. Grace; Sina Bahram |
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| Editors | |
| Type | misc |
| Year | 2010 |
| Citekey | li2010defeating |
Where it appeared
| Published in | European Conference on Computer Systems |
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| Pages | 195--208 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/1755913.1755934 |
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| OpenAlex | W2027963645 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1145/1755913.1755934 |
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Abstract
Targeting the operating system (OS) kernel, kernel rootkits pose a formidable threat to computer systems and their users. Recent efforts have made significant progress in blocking them from injecting malicious code into the OS kernel for execution. Unfortunately, they cannot block the emerging so-called return-oriented rootkits (RORs). Without the need of injecting their own malicious code, these rootkits can discover and chain together "return-oriented gadgets" (that consist of only legitimate kernel code) for rootkit computation.
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Cite it as
@misc{li2010defeating,
title = {Defeating return-oriented rootkits with return-less kernels},
author = {Jinku Li and Zhi Wang and Xuxian Jiang and Michael C. Grace and Sina Bahram},
year = {2010},
journal = {European Conference on Computer Systems},
pages = {195--208},
doi = {10.1145/1755913.1755934},
}
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