Hao Zhou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Haoyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Xiapu Luo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Ting Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Yajin Zhou (Zhejiang University), Ting Wang (Pennsylvania State University)

Due to the complexity resulted from the huge code base and the multi-context nature of Android, inconsistent access control enforcement exists in Android, which can be exploited by malware to bypass the access control and perform unauthorized security-sensitive operations. Unfortunately, existing studies only focus on the inconsistent access control enforcement in the Java context of Android. In this paper, we conduct the first systematic investigation on the inconsistent access control enforcement across the Java context and native context of Android. In particular, to automatically discover cross-context inconsistencies, we design and implement IAceFinder, a new tool that extracts and contrasts the access control enforced in the Java context and native context of Android. Applying IAceFinder to 14 open-source Android ROMs, we find that it can effectively uncover their cross-context inconsistent access control enforcement. Specifically, IAceFinder discovers 23 inconsistencies that can be abused by attackers to compromise the device and violate user privacy.

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Hybrid Trust Multi-party Computation with Trusted Execution Environment

Pengfei Wu (School of Computing, National University of Singapore), Jianting Ning (College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University; Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jiamin Shen (School of Computing, National University of Singapore), Hongbing Wang (School of Computing, National University of Singapore), Ee-Chien Chang (School of Computing, National University of Singapore)

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DRIVETRUTH: Automated Autonomous Driving Dataset Generation for Security Applications

Raymond Muller (Purdue University), Yanmao Man (University of Arizona), Z. Berkay Celik (Purdue University), Ming Li (University of Arizona) and Ryan Gerdes (Virginia Tech)

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What the Fork? Finding and Analyzing Malware in GitHub...

Alan Cao (New York University) and Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (New York University)

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Alex Groce (Northern Arizona Univerisity), Goutamkumar Kalburgi (Northern Arizona Univerisity), Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University), Kush Jain (Carnegie Mellon University), Rahul Gopinath (Saarland University)

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