NDLI: Evaluating the security threat of firewall data corruption caused by instruction transient errors

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shuo Chen Jun Xu Iyer, R.K. Whisnant, K.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Center for Reliable & High Performance Comput., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA (Shuo Chen; Jun Xu; Iyer, R.K.; Whisnant, K.)
Abstract	This paper experimentally evaluates and models the error-caused security vulnerabilities and the resulting security violations of two Linux kernel firewalls: IPChains and Netfilter. There are two major aspects to this work: to conduct extensive error injection experiments on the Linux kernel and to quantify the possibility of error-caused security violations using a SAN (Stochastic Activity Network) model. The error injection experiments show that about 2% of errors injected into the firewall code segment cause security vulnerabilities. Two types of error-caused security vulnerabilities are distinguished: temporary, which disappear when the error disappears, and permanent, which persist even after the error is removed, as long as the system is not rebooted. Results from simulating the SAN model indicate that under an error rate of 0.1 error/day during a 1-year period in a networked system protected by 20 firewalls, 2 machines (on the average) will experience security violations. This indicates that error-caused security vulnerabilities can be a non-negligible source of a security threats to a highly secure system.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Fault-Tolerant Comput. (TCFTC) IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Comput. & Fault Tolerence DARPA LAAS-CNRS Univ. Michigan
Starting Page	495
Ending Page	504
File Size	1127958
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769511015
DOI	10.1109/DSN.2002.1028938
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-06-23
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Data security Kernel Storage area networks Hardware Law Legal factors Computer aided instruction Error analysis Protection Cryptography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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