• 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.