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On Return Oriented Programming Threats In Android Runtime, Akshaya Venkateswara Raja, Jehyun Lee, Debin Gao
On Return Oriented Programming Threats In Android Runtime, Akshaya Venkateswara Raja, Jehyun Lee, Debin Gao
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Android has taken a large share of operating systems forsmart devices including smartphones, and has been an attractive target to theattackers. The arms race between attackers and defenders typically occurs ontwo front lines — the latest attacking technology and the latest updates to theoperating system (including defense mechanisms deployed). In terms of attackingtechnology, Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) is one of the most sophisticatedattack methods on Android devices. In terms of the operating system updates,Android Runtime (ART) was the latest and biggest change to the Android family.In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Android Runtime (ART) makesReturn-Oriented Programming (ROP) attacks …