| Title: |
Security Smells in Android |
| Authors: |
Ghafari, Mohammad; Gadient, Pascal Josef; Nierstrasz, Oscar Marius |
| Source: |
Ghafari, Mohammad; Gadient, Pascal Josef; Nierstrasz, Oscar Marius (September 2017). Security Smells in Android. In: 17th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (pp. 121-130). IEEE 10.1109/SCAM.2017.24 |
| Publisher Information: |
IEEE |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) |
| Subject Terms: |
000 Computer science; knowledge & systems; 510 Mathematics |
| Description: |
The ubiquity of smartphones, and their very broad capabilities and usage, make the security of these devices tremendously important. Unfortunately, despite all progress in security and privacy mechanisms, vulnerabilities continue to proliferate.Research has shown that many vulnerabilities are due to insecure programming practices. However, each study has often dealt with a specific issue, making the results less actionable for practitioners.To promote secure programming practices, we have reviewed related research, and identified avoidable vulnerabilities in Android-run devices and the security code smells that indicate their presence. In particular, we explain the vulnerabilities, their corresponding smells, and we discuss how they could be eliminated or mitigated during development. Moreover, we develop a lightweight static analysis tool and discuss the extent to which it successfully detects several vulnerabilities in about 46000 apps hosted by the official Android market. |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/113128/ |
| Availability: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/113128/1/08090145.pdf; https://boris.unibe.ch/113128/; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090145/ |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.FF2C9465 |
| Database: |
BASE |