Checking Intent-based Communication in Android with Intent Space Analysis
Yiming Jing, Gail‐Joon Ahn, Adam Doupé, Jeong Hyun Yi · 2016
Intent-based communication is an inter-application communication mechanism in Android. While its importance has been proven by plenty of security extensions that protect it with policy-driven mandatory access control, an overlooked problem is the verification of the security policies. Checking one security extension's policy is indeed complex. Furthermore, intent-based communication introduces even more complexities because it is mediated by multiple security extensions that respectively enforce their own incompatible, distributed, and dynamic policies.