Klein, Jacques[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Le Traon, Yves[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Sep-2014
The 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-14), IEEE, Sept. 2014, Beijing, China.
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The 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-14)
from 24-09-2014 to 26-09-2014
[en] We present PCLeaks, a tool based on inter- component communication (ICC) vulnerabilities to perform data-flow analysis on Android applications to find potential component leaks that could potentially be exploited by other components. To evaluate our approach, we run PCLeaks on 2000 apps randomly selected from the Google Play store. PCLeaks reports 986 potential component leaks in 185 apps. For each leak reported by PCLeaks, PCLeaksValidator automatically generates an Android app which tries to exploit the leak. By manually running a subset of the generated apps, we find that 75% of the reported leaks are exploitable leaks.