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Automatic placement of authorization hooks in the linux security modules framework

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Jaeger, Trent Ganapathy, Vinod Jha, Somesh
Abstract	We present a technique for automatic placement of authorization hooks, and apply it to the Linux security modules (LSM) framework. LSM is a generic framework which allows diverse authorization policies to be enforced by the Linux kernel. It consists of a kernel module which encapsulates an authorization policy, and hooks into the kernel module placed at appropriate locations in the Linux kernel. The kernel enforces the authorization policy using hook calls. In current practice, hooks are placed manually in the kernel. This approach is tedious, and as prior work has shown, is prone to security holes.Our technique uses static analysis of the Linux kernel and the kernel module to automate hook placement. Given a non-hook-placed version of the Linux kernel, and a kernel module that implements an authorization policy, our technique infers the set of operations authorized by each hook, and the set of operations performed by each function in the kernel. It uses this information to infer the set of hooks that must guard each kernel function. We describe the design and implementation of a prototype tool called TAHOE (Tool for Authorization Hook Placement) that uses this technique. We demonstrate the effectiveness of TAHOE by using it with the LSM implementation of security-enhanced Linux (selinux). While our exposition in this paper focuses on hook placement for LSM, our technique can be used to place hooks in other LSM-like architectures as well.
Starting Page	330
Ending Page	339
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1595932267
DOI	10.1145/1102120.1102164
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2005-11-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Hook placement Selinux Lsm Static analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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