Towards Provably Secure Malware Defenses
Abstract
In modern architectures, there are several attacks which directly corrupt contents in memory. For example, the Direct Memory Access (DMA) enables components of the architecture (such as embedded devices and/or peripherals) to access a computer's memory directly, without OS supervision. While this feature permits extremely fast data transfers, it also allows a malicious (e.g., exploited) device to potentially steal sensitive data, orrun malicious programs on the computer. Another typical memory-corruption attack is Rowhammer which if successful, causes some memory cells to interact with and flip the values in nearby memory rows.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 08, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1226133
Entities
People
- Rafail Ostrovsky
Organizations
- University of California, Los Angeles