• DocumentCode
    1972654
  • Title

    IRONSIDES: DNS with no single-packet denial of service or remote code execution vulnerabilities

  • Author

    Carlisle, Michael ; Fagin, B.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., US Air Force Acad., Colorado Springs, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    3-7 Dec. 2012
  • Firstpage
    839
  • Lastpage
    844
  • Abstract
    We describe the development of IRONSIDES, an implementation of DNS that is provably invulnerable to remote code execution exploits and single-packet denial of service attacks. Our experimental results show it to be over three times as fast as BIND, the most common implementation of DNS.
  • Keywords
    Internet; codes; telecommunication services; BIND; DNS; IRONSIDES; Internet domain name system; remote code execution vulnerability; single-packet denial of service attack; DNS; buffer overflow; computer security; denial of service; network security; remote execution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • ISSN
    1930-529X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0920-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1930-529X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503217
  • Filename
    6503217