JOURNAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY(NATURAL SCIENCE) ›› 2017, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (3): 38-43.doi: 10.6040/j.issn.1671-9352.1.2016.083

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A study on security enhancement technology for KVM Hypervisor

ZHAO Dan-dan1, CHEN Xing-shu1,2*, JIN Xin1   

  1. 1. School of Computing Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, Sichuan, China;
    2.Cybersecurity Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, Sichuan, China
  • Received:2016-08-18 Online:2017-03-20 Published:2017-03-20

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Abstract: To enhance the security capabilities of kernel-based virtual machine(KVM)Hypervisor, a multi-level security capabilities enhancement technology was proposed based on multi vulnerabilities, including Hypervisor type trick, VMX instructions monitoring, the ioctl system call interface protection, dynamical KVM code measurement and anti-unloading technology, to enhance the security capabilities of the KVM Hypervisor and detect some unknown attacks base interfaces of KVM in time. Eventually a prototype system on the full-virtualization platform of KVM was implemented which was called(Security-KVM, Sec-KVM). The experimental result shows that the Sec-KVM is able to hide the virtualization type of the Hypervisor which enhanced the ability of anti-attack of Hypervisor, dynamically measure the integrity of the KVM and the ioctl system call interface which prevented spread of the attacks, and detect some unknown attacks based KVM service interfaces.

Key words: virtual machine monitor, type hide, ioctl system call, KVM, dynamic measurement

CLC Number: 

  • TP316
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