N. Jagadeeswari1,*, V. Mohan Raj2
Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 929-943, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024945
- 01 June 2022
Abstract Virtualization is the backbone of cloud computing, which is a developing and widely used paradigm. By finding and merging identical memory pages, memory deduplication improves memory efficiency in virtualized systems. Kernel Same Page Merging (KSM) is a Linux service for memory pages sharing in virtualized environments. Memory deduplication is vulnerable to a memory disclosure attack, which uses covert channel establishment to reveal the contents of other colocated virtual machines. To avoid a memory disclosure attack, sharing of identical pages within a single user’s virtual machine is permitted, but sharing of contents between different users is More >