MiSFIT: Constructing Safe Extensible Systems

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Small;Margo I. Seltzer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Concurrency
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Extensible applications extend system behavior but often at the expense of system security. The authors developed their Minimal i386 Software Fault Isolation Tool to protect applications from end-user extensions written in otherwise unsafe languages. They demonstrate how MiSFIT transforms unsafe x86 assembler code into safe code, and they discuss future research possibilites for further improving MiSFIT.