Security Enhanced (SE) Android: Bringing Flexible MAC to Android

Author(s): Stephen Smalley and Robert Craig

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Date: 23 Apr 2013

Document Type: Presentations

Additional Documents: Slides

Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2013

Abstract:

In this paper, we motivate and describe our work to bring flexible mandatory access control (MAC) to Android by enabling the effective use of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) for kernel-level MAC and by developing a set of middleware MAC extensions to the Android permissions model.