Stefan,

From: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: EuroSec'11 Presentation
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:51:42 +0100

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Kuniyasu Suzaki <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: EuroSec'11 Presentation
> > Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:49:52 +0300
> >
> >> On 04/10/2011 05:23 PM, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote:
> >> > Dear,
> >> >
> >> > I made a presentation about memory disclosure attack on SKM (Kernel
> >> > Samepage Merging) with KVM at EuroSec 2011.
> >> > The titile is "Memory Deduplication as a Threat to the Guest OS".
> >> >    http://www.iseclab.org/eurosec-2011/program.html
> >> >
> >> > The slide is downloadbale.
> >> >    
> >> > http://www.slideshare.net/suzaki/eurosec2011-slide-memory-deduplication
> >> > The paper will be downloadble form ACM Digital Library.
> >> >
> >> > Please tell me, if you have comments. Thank you.
> >>
> >> Very interesting presentation.  It seems every time you share something,
> >> it become a target for attacks.
> >
> > I'm happy to hear your comments.
> > The referee's comment was severe. It said there was not brand-new
> > point, but there are real attack experiences.  My paper was just
> > evaluated the detction on apahce2 and sshd on Linux Guest OS and
> > Firefox and IE6 on Windows Guest OS.
> 
> If I have a VM on the same physical host as someone else I may be able
> to determine which programs and specific versions they are currently
> running.
> 
> Is there some creative attack using this technique that I'm missing?
> I don't see many serious threats.

The memory disclosure attack assumed to be applied on Cloud Computing
which offers multi tenants. Even if a application has a vulnerablity,
attacker can find and attack it.
As I show my slides, IE6 is an exmaple.

The situation resembles to Cross VM Side Channel Attack mentioned in
CCS10 paper "Hey, you, get off of my cloud".

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Kuniyasu Suzaki

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