Towards understanding Android system vulnerabilities: Techniques and insights

• Main Authors: WU, Daoyuan, GAO, Debin, CHENG, Eric K. T., CAO, Yichen, JIANG, Jintao, DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Android Security; Patch Code Clustering; System Vulnerability; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4318; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5321/viewcontent/AsiaCCS19_AndroVulns.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

As a common platform for pervasive devices, Android has been targeted by numerous attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in its apps and the operating system. Compared to app vulnerabilities, systemlevel vulnerabilities in Android, however, were much less explored in the literature. In this paper, we...