The lifetime of Android API vulnerabilities: Case study on the JavaScript-to-Java interface (Transcript of Discussion)

Abstract

Security protocols like TLS often have a two-sided upgrade problem, it takes a long time to upgrade, as both the client and the server must be upgraded. An API is a protocol, and there are a two-sided upgrade problems with APIs. We have evaluated a particularly nasty API vulnerability in Android for which we have data on the different approaches used to fix it and their deployment timeline. First I will describe the vulnerability, and why it is important.

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Security Protocols XXIII