A User-Level Infrastructure for System Call Interposition: A Platform for Intrusion Detection and Confinement

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Table of Contents

A User-Level Infrastructure for System Call Interposition: A Platform for Intrusion Detection and Confinement

Motivation

Prior Approaches for System Call Interposition

Issues in User-Level Syscall Interposition

Organization of Talk

Overview of User-Level Syscall Interception

System Overview

System Overview Supervisor Object Lifecycle

Supervisor Interface Design

Supervisor Interface Design

Supervisor Interface Design

Runtime System Realizing needed capabilities

Runtime System: Efficiency

Runtime System: Portability

Performance Impact

Performance Analysis

CPU-intensive Applications

Disk-intensive Applications

Network Servers

Overhead for accessing arguments

Conclusions

Future Work

Author: Mark Segal