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kGuard: Lightweight Kernel Protection

Author(s): 

Vasileios Kemerlis, Georgios Portokalidis, Elias Athanasopoulos, and Angelos D. Keromytis

Kernel exploits have become increasingly popular over the past several years. We have developed kGuard, a cross-platform system that defends the operating system (OS) against a widespread class of kernel attacks. We describe how these attacks work and how kGuard protects the kernel with only a small decrease in performance.

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December 2012, Volume 37, Number 6
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