PCIe Side-channel Attack on I/O Device via RDMA-enabled Network Card

Hodong Kim, Junbeom Hur

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    Abstract

    Microarchitectural side-channel attacks aim to steal sensitive information by exploiting various shared resources of systems. Recently, several studies proposed PCIe-based microar-chitectural side-channel attacks. Existing studies evaluated such attacks on the limited environments that utilize special-purpose system hardwares. In this study, we analyze the operating mechanism of IOMMU which manages direct memory access of PCIe devices in general system environments. Based on the result, we discuss the possibility of exploiting IOMMU to conduct a PCIe-based microarchitectural side-channel attack.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationICTC 2022 - 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence
    Subtitle of host publicationAccelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages1468-1470
    Number of pages3
    ISBN (Electronic)9781665499392
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022
    Event13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2022 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 2022 Oct 192022 Oct 21

    Publication series

    NameInternational Conference on ICT Convergence
    Volume2022-October
    ISSN (Print)2162-1233
    ISSN (Electronic)2162-1241

    Conference

    Conference13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2022
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityJeju Island
    Period22/10/1922/10/21

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by IITP grant funded by the MSIT, Korea (No.2019-0-00533, 2022-0-00411, IITP-2022-2021-0-01810) and Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Korea (NRF-2021R1A6A1A13044830).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2022 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • IOMMU
    • Microarchitectural side-channel attack
    • PCIe
    • RNIC

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Information Systems
    • Computer Networks and Communications

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