DocumentCode
3096938
Title
Reflections on UNIX Vulnerabilities
Author
Bishop, Matt
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
fYear
2009
fDate
7-11 Dec. 2009
Firstpage
161
Lastpage
184
Abstract
The UNIX operating system was developed in a friendly, collaborative environment without any particular predefined objectives. As it entered less friendly environments, expanded its functionality, and became the basis for commercial, infrastructure, and home systems, vulnerabilities in the system affected its robustness and security. This paper presents a brief history of UNIX vulnerabilities, beginning with a report written in 1981-1983, but never published. It examines how the nature of vulnerabilities has (and has not) changed since then, and presents some thoughts on the future of vulnerabilities in the UNIX operating system and its variants and other UNIX-like systems.
Keywords
Unix; security of data; UNIX operating system; UNIX vulnerabilities; UNIX-like systems; robustness; security; Application software; Collaboration; Computer science; Computer security; History; Mechanical factors; Operating systems; Reflection; Robustness; Terrorism; UNIX security; future; history; security policy; vulnerabilities;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer Security Applications Conference, 2009. ACSAC '09. Annual
Conference_Location
Honolulu, HI
ISSN
1063-9527
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3919-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ACSAC.2009.25
Filename
5380506
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