IOMMU protection against I/O attacks: a vulnerability and a proof of concept

Abstract Input/output (I/O) attacks have received increasing attention during the last decade. These attacks are performed by malicious peripherals that make read or write accesses to DRAM memory or to memory embedded in other peripherals, through DMA (Direct Memory Access) requests. Some protection...

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Main Authors: Benoît Morgan, Éric Alata, Vincent Nicomette, Mohamed Kaâniche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13173-017-0066-7