On the Security Risks of Memory Adaptation and Augmentation in Data-plane DoS Mitigation
We introduce ‘Heracles attack’ that uncover security risks in adaptive data-plane DoS defenses in programmable switches, and propose a new sketch mechnaism ‘Shield’ to mitigate Heracles attack.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{nam2026heracles,
title = {{On the Security Risks of Memory Adaptation and Augmentation in Data-plane DoS Mitigation}},
author = {Nam, Hocheol and Lim, Daehyun and Zhou, Huancheng and Gu, Guofei and Kang, Min Suk},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'26)},
pages = {1-20},
year = {2026},
}
