Dependability of CORBA systems: service characterization by fault injection

Marsden, E.; Fabre, Jean-Charles; Arlat, Jean

doi:10.1109/reldis.2002.1180198

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Similarly, Shelton et al have made a comparative study of six variants of Windows [28]. Other example studies with these tools include real time microkernels [14] and middleware support systems like CORBA [22] [24]. More recently, this technique has been applied at the OS device driver interface [15] [16][17] [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

Fuzzing Wi-Fi Drivers to Locate Security Vulnerabilities

Mendonça

Neves

2008

2008 Seventh European Dependable Computing Conference

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Wireless LANs (WLAN) are becoming ubiquitous, as more and more consumer electronic equipments start to support them. This creates new security concerns, since hackers no longer need physical connection to the networks linking the devices, but only need to be in their proximity, to send malicious data to exploit some vulnerability. In this paper we present a fuzzer, called Wdev-Fuzzer, which can be utilized to locate security vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi device drivers. Our experiments with a Windows Mobile 5 device indicate that Wdev-Fuzzer can be quite effective in confirming known issues and discovering previously unknown problems.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fuzzing Wi-Fi Drivers to Locate Security Vulnerabilities

Mendonça

Neves

2008

2008 Seventh European Dependable Computing Conference

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“…Application level software can be tested using robustness techniques by, for instance, generating exceptions and returning bad values at the OS interface [8]. Middleware support systems like CORBA have been examined at the client-side interface of an ORB [19] and internally at the level of the Naming and Event services [14]. Dependability benchmarking has resorted to robustness testing in order to evaluate systems [18,23,24].…”

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Robustness Testing of the Windows DDK

Mendonça¹,

Neves²

2007

37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'07)

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“…Ideally, a failure model should be defined by conducting field-based observations over a large time period for different systems in operation (Marsden et al, 2002). Information may be collected such Malicious agent Example malicious agent attacks include: unauthorised access to services, denial of service (e.g.…”

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A Dynamic Shadow Approach to Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agents in an Autonomic Environment

Pears

2005

Real-Time Syst

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Large-scale distributed applications such as online information retrieval and collaboration over computational elements demand an approach to self-managed computing systems with a minimum of human interference. However, large scales and full distribution often lead to poor system dependability and security, and increase the difficulty in managing and controlling redundancy for fault tolerance. In particular, fault tolerance schemes for mobile agents to survive agent server crash failures in an autonomie environment are complex since developers normally have no control over remote agent servers. Some solutions inject a replica into stable storage upon its arrival at an agent server. But in the event of an agent server crash the replica is unavailable until the agent server recovers. In this paper we present a failure model and an exception handling framework for mobile agent systems. An exception handling scheme is developed for mobile agents to survive agent server crash failures. A replica mobile agent operates at the agent server visited prior to its master's current location. If a master crashes its replica is available as a replacement. The proposed scheme is examined in comparison with a simple time-out scheme. Experimental evaluation is performed, and performance results show that the scheme leads to some overhead in the round trip time when fault tolerance measures are exercised. However the scheme offers the advantage that fault tolerance is provided during the mobile agent trip, i.e. in the event of an agent server crash all agent servers are not revisited.

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Dependability of CORBA systems: service characterization by fault injection

Cited by 27 publications

References 13 publications

Fuzzing Wi-Fi Drivers to Locate Security Vulnerabilities

Fuzzing Wi-Fi Drivers to Locate Security Vulnerabilities

Robustness Testing of the Windows DDK

A Dynamic Shadow Approach to Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agents in an Autonomic Environment

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