Android Taint Flow Analysis for App Sets

May 7, 2014 • Conference Paper

By

William Klieber, Lori Flynn, Amar S. Bhosale (No Affiliation), Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), and Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

This paper describes a new static taint flow analysis that precisely tracks both inter-component and intra-component data flow in a set of Android applications.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Subjects

Secure Coding Secure Development

Abstract

This paper was presented at the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis (SOAP 2014), June 12, 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland,
United Kingdom. The authors describe a new static taint flow analysis that precisely tracks both inter-component and intra-component data flow in a set of Android applications.

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