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Mobile SCALe: Rules and Analysis for Secure Java and Android Coding

November 2013 • Technical Report
Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Lori Flynn, Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Will Klieber, Fred Long, Dean F. Sutherland, David Svoboda

In this report, the authors describe Android secure coding rules, guidelines, and static analysis developed as part of the Mobile SCALe project.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-2013-TR-015

DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
10.1184/R1/6575507.v1
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Abstract

This report describes Android secure coding rules, guidelines, and static analysis that were developed as part of the Mobile Source Code Analysis Laboratory (SCALe) project. The project aims to create a set of rules that can be checked (and potentially enforced) and to develop checkers for these rules. These efforts are intended to increase confidence in continued safe and secure operation of mobile devices and the networks on which they operate. The focus for this phase of the project is the Android platform for mobile devices. Work described in this report involved three activities: (1) preparing the Java Coding Guidelines book for publication, (2) developing Android secure coding rules for the Android section of the CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java wiki, and (3) developing software that does static analysis of a set of Android apps for data flows between them so that security leaks can be detected.