0) The mount random directory attack was originally discovered as subdirectory relocation attack in GNU by: W. Purczyn rm - recursive directory removal race condition. Bug file utils mailing list 2002 1) RedHat 7.3 should read 7.2. 2) chdir system call is part of allFileOps 3) After extensive testing, some of the rules resulted in higher false alarms. For updated results on this paper -- including microbenchmarks and updated/new attack policies, along with more detailed description of eXperiements please refer to the paper TR: UMKC-OSLAB-2 4) The notion of commutability and non-interference are not unique. Several research efforts have defined these including an eariler work of ours (DISCEX 00) and more recently by Calvin Ko and Tim Richmond of NAI labs

5) For updated results on this paper -- including microbenchmarks and updated/new attack policies, along with more detailed description of experiements please refer to the paper TR: UMKC-OSLAB-2. This paper also contains a more comprehensive discussion of related work. This paper is currently being peer-reviewed Journal of Computers and Security, Elsevier.