• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.565-568
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• 2011

Google Android framework consists of an operating system and software platform for mobile devices. Using a general-purpose Linux operating system in mobile device has some advantages but also security risks. Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a kernel-based protection approach which can help to reduce potential damage from successful attacks. However, there are some challenges to integrate SELinux in Android. In this research, we do a study on how to do the integration and find out four challenges. The first one is that the Android file system (yaff2) does not support security namespace for extended attribute (xattr) which is required by SELinux. The second one is that it's difficult to apply SELinux policy to Dalvik process on which an Android application runs on. The third one is that Android lacks methods, tools and libraries to interact with SELinux. The last one is how to update the SELinux policy automatically when installing or removing an application. In this paper, we propose solutions for the above limitations that make the SELinux more adaptive and suitable for Android framework.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.3005-3011
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• 2010

As soon as high-performanced smart phones is rapidly emerging in recent, its security problems come to the front. Especially in case of an open platform, it is easy to be a target of virus. Many security solution industries such as Symantec and Ahnlab are developing a mobile security system, but they have not yet a commercial product. We developed the effective security function of Android system based on SELinux to solve this problem, and verified its performance by applying the user applications developed to S3C6410 board.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.1105-1119
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• 2016

Android includes SEAndroid as a core security feature. SELinux is applied to Android OS as a SEAndroid, because there exists structural differences between Linux and Android. Since the security of SEAndroid depends on the reliable policy if the policy is tampered by the attacker, the serious security problems can be occurred. So we must protect policies which are the most important thing in SEAndoroid. In this paper, we analyze the process of SEAndroid policy updating to find out vulnerabilities and study the attack points on policy tampering. And we propose the SPPA to detect whether the policy is modified by an attacker. Moreover, we prove the performance and the effect of our proposed method on mobile device.