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Detecting Information Flow by Mutating Input Data

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2018

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Gesellschaft für Informatik

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[Accepted as full paper for ASE 2017] Analyzing information flow is central in assessing the security of applications. However, static and dynamic analyses of information flow are easily challenged by non-available or obscure code. We present a lightweight mutation-based analysis that systematically mutates dynamic values returned by sensitive sources to assess whether the mutation changes the values passed to sensitive sinks. If so, we found a flow between source and sink. In contrast to existing techniques, mutation-based flow analysis does not attempt to identify the specific path of the flow and is thus resilient to obfuscation. In its evaluation, our MUTAFLOW prototype for Android programs showed that mutation-based flow analysis is a lightweight yet effective complement to existing tools. Compared to the popular FLOWDROID static analysis tool, MUTAFLOW requires less than 10% of source code lines but has similar accuracy; on 20 tested real-world apps, it is able to detect 75 flows that FLOWDROID misses.

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Mathis, Björn; Avdiienko, Vitalii; Soremekun, Ezekiel O.; Böhme, Marcel; Zeller, Andreas (2018): Detecting Information Flow by Mutating Input Data. Software Engineering und Software Management 2018. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik. PISSN: 1617-5468. ISBN: 978-3-88579-673-2. pp. 61-62. Software Engineering 2018 - Wissenschaftliches Hauptprogramm. Ulm. 5.-9. März 2018

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