A Survey of Hardware-Assisted Intra-Address Space Protections

doi:10.1007/s11390-025-4827-z

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	A Survey of Hardware-Assisted Intra-Address Space Protections
	Jin, Yue 1,2,3; Huang, Tian-Yi 1,2; Zeng, Si-Yuan 1,2,3; Xu, Yi-Bin 1,2; Wang, Han 1,2; Lu, Tian-Yue 1,2; Chen, Ming-Yu 1,2,3
	2025-09-01
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISSN	1000-9000
卷号	40 期号:5 页码:1347-1367
摘要	With a similar threat model, conventional software mechanisms aimed at various levels of security can be categorized as intra-address space protection (IASP) including memory safety, control-flow integrity, syscall filtering, and isolation. When enhancing security, software-only IASP methods result in an expanded trusted computing base (TCB) and can lead to performance slowdowns, making it challenging to strike a balance between security and performance. Recent studies indicate that hardware-assisted methods enhance efficiency by encapsulating hardware primitives and utilizing specialized microarchitecture designs. They also enhance security by reducing the trusted computing base's attack surface. However, there has been limited discussion regarding the key challenges in current hardware-assisted IASP studies. This paper conducts a comprehensive survey of hardware-assisted IASP and discusses critical design issues, such as metadata management strategies, protection comprehensiveness, protection granularity, and processor complexity. Through a qualitative analysis of existing methods, this paper summarizes the research trends in hardware-assisted IASP technologies and emphasizes the importance of isolation models, access control strategies, and cross-compartment switching in future hardware-assisted IASP designs.
关键词	software security hardware-assisted security intra-address space protection (IASP)
DOI	10.1007/s11390-025-4827-z
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS记录号	WOS:001621167000009
出版者	SPRINGER SINGAPORE PTE LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/43068
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所
通讯作者	Chen, Ming-Yu
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, State Key Lab Processors, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Zhongguancun Lab, Beijing 100194, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jin, Yue,Huang, Tian-Yi,Zeng, Si-Yuan,et al. A Survey of Hardware-Assisted Intra-Address Space Protections[J]. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,2025,40(5):1347-1367.
APA	Jin, Yue.,Huang, Tian-Yi.,Zeng, Si-Yuan.,Xu, Yi-Bin.,Wang, Han.,...&Chen, Ming-Yu.(2025).A Survey of Hardware-Assisted Intra-Address Space Protections.JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,40(5),1347-1367.
MLA	Jin, Yue,et al."A Survey of Hardware-Assisted Intra-Address Space Protections".JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 40.5(2025):1347-1367.