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Wed 30 Apr 2025 14:50 - 15:15 at Canada Hall 1 and 2 - Wednesday Afternoon Awards Plenary Chair(s): Manel Abdellatif

Authors of this paper will talk about their paper presented in ICSE 2025.

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Abstract of the original paper:

Shake Them All is a popular “Wallpaper” application exceeding millions of downloads on Google Play. At installation, this application is given permission to (1) access the Internet (for updating wallpapers) and (2) use the device microphone (to change background following noise changes). With these permissions, the application could silently record user conversations and upload them remotely. To give more confidence about how Shake Them All actually processes what it records, it is necessary to build a precise analysis tool that tracks the flow of any sensitive data from its source point to any sink, especially if those are in different components. Since Android applications may leak private data carelessly or maliciously, we propose IccTA, a static taint analyzer to detect privacy leaks among components in Android applications. IccTA goes beyond state-of-the-art approaches by supporting inter- component detection. By propagating context information among components, IccTA improves the precision of the analysis. IccTA outperforms existing tools on two benchmarks for ICC-leak detectors: DroidBench and ICC-Bench. Moreover, our approach detects 534 ICC leaks in 108 apps from MalGenome and 2,395 ICC leaks in 337 apps in a set of 15,000 Google Play apps.

Authors of the original paper:

Li Li SnT, University of Luxembourg

Alexandre Bartel EC SPRIDE, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Jacques Klein SnT, University of Luxembourg

Yves Le Traon SnT, University of Luxembourg

Steven Arzt EC SPRIDE, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Siegfried Rasthofer EC SPRIDE, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Eric Bodden EC SPRIDE, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Damien Octeau

Patrick McDaniel Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Wed 30 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Wednesday Afternoon Awards PlenaryMain Plenaries at Canada Hall 1 and 2
Chair(s): Manel Abdellatif École de Technologie Supérieure
14:00
25m
Talk
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award and Talk by Martin Rinard: Research in Program Repair and Approximate Computing: A RetrospectiveAward Winner
Main Plenaries
A: Martin C. Rinard Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:25
25m
Talk
IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award and Talk by Bashar Nuseibeh: Context 2.0: The World in the MachineAward Winner
Main Plenaries
A: Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University, UK
14:50
25m
Talk
Most influential Paper ICSE N-10 Award and Talk for: IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android AppsAward Winner
Main Plenaries
A: Li Li Beihang University, A: Alexandre Bartel Umeå University, A: Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, A: Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, A: Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, A: Steven Arzt Fraunhofer SIT; ATHENE, A: Siegfried Rasthofer , A: Eric Bodden , A: Damien Octeau University of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania State University, A: Patrick McDaniel Pennsylvania State University
15:15
15m
Talk
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