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ICSE 2021
Mon 17 May - Sat 5 June 2021

Inter-Component Communication (ICC) is a keymechanism in Android. It enables developers to compose rich functionalities and explore reuse within and across apps. Unfortunately, as reported by a large body of literature, ICC is rather “complex and largely unconstrained”, leaving room to a lack of precision in apps modeling. To address the challenge of tracking ICCs within apps, state of the art static approaches such as EPICC, ICCTA and AMANDROID have focused on the documented framework ICC methods (e.g., startActivity) to build their approaches. In this work we show that ICC models inferred in these state of the art tools may actually be incomplete: the framework provides other atypical ways of performing ICCs. To address this limitation in the state of the art, we propose RAICC a static approach for modeling new ICC links and thus boosting previous analysis tasks such as ICC vulnerability detection, privacy leaks detection, malware detection, etc. We have evaluated RAICC on 20 benchmark apps, demonstrating that it improves the precision and recall of uncovered leaks in state of the art tools. We have also performed a large empirical investigation showing that Atypical ICC methods are largely used in Android apps, although not necessarily for data transfer. We also show that RAICC increases the number of ICC links found by 61.6% on a dataset of real-world malicious apps, and that RAICC enables the detection of new ICC vulnerabilities.

Thu 27 May

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

20:50 - 21:40
3.6.4. Security Vulnerabilities: General Issues #2NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results / Technical Track at Blended Sessions Room 4 +12h
Chair(s): Francisco Servant Virginia Tech
20:50
20m
Paper
RAICC: Revealing Atypical Inter-Component Communication in Android AppsArtifact ReusableTechnical TrackArtifact Available
Technical Track
Jordan Samhi University of Luxembourg, Alexandre Bartel University of Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
21:10
15m
Paper
Towards a Model-Integrated Runtime Monitoring Infrastructure for Cyber-Physical SystemsNIER
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Michael Vierhauser Johannes Kepler University Linz, Hussein Marah Johannes Kepler University Linz, Antonio Garmendia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame, Manuel Wimmer JKU Linz
Pre-print Media Attached
21:25
15m
Research paper
Should you Upgrade Official Docker Hub Images in Production Environments?NIER
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Sara Gholami University of Alberta, Hamzeh Khazaei York University, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta
Pre-print Media Attached File Attached

Fri 28 May

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

08:50 - 09:40
3.6.4. Security Vulnerabilities: General Issues #2NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results / Technical Track at Blended Sessions Room 4
08:50
20m
Paper
RAICC: Revealing Atypical Inter-Component Communication in Android AppsArtifact ReusableTechnical TrackArtifact Available
Technical Track
Jordan Samhi University of Luxembourg, Alexandre Bartel University of Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
09:10
15m
Paper
Towards a Model-Integrated Runtime Monitoring Infrastructure for Cyber-Physical SystemsNIER
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Michael Vierhauser Johannes Kepler University Linz, Hussein Marah Johannes Kepler University Linz, Antonio Garmendia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame, Manuel Wimmer JKU Linz
Pre-print Media Attached
09:25
15m
Research paper
Should you Upgrade Official Docker Hub Images in Production Environments?NIER
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Sara Gholami University of Alberta, Hamzeh Khazaei York University, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta
Pre-print Media Attached File Attached