Would You Mind Forking This Process? A Denial of Service Attack on Android (and Some Countermeasures) - Information Security and Privacy Research
Conference Papers Year : 2012

Would You Mind Forking This Process? A Denial of Service Attack on Android (and Some Countermeasures)

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We present a previously undisclosed vulnerability of Android OS which can be exploited by mounting a Denial-of-Service attack that makes devices become totally unresponsive. We discuss the characteristics of the vulnerability – which affects all versions of Android – and propose two different fixes, each involving little patching implementing a few architectural countermeasures. We also provide experimental evidence of the effectiveness of the exploit as well as of the proposed countermeasures.
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hal-01518240 , version 1 (04-05-2017)

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Alessandro Armando, Alessio Merlo, Mauro Migliardi, Luca Verderame. Would You Mind Forking This Process? A Denial of Service Attack on Android (and Some Countermeasures). 27th Information Security and Privacy Conference (SEC), Jun 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. pp.13-24, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-30436-1_2⟩. ⟨hal-01518240⟩
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