A systematic analysis and hardening of the Java security architecture / by Philipp Albert Holzinger ; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden. Paderborn, 2019
Content
Abstract
Zusammenfassung
Publications
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
Introduction and contributions
Introduction
Research motivation
Context and scope
Challenges and risks
Thesis statement
Summary of contributions
Systematic large-scale analysis of Java exploits
Mitigating attacks on information hiding
Hardening access control by abolishing implicit privilege elevation
General related work
Thesis organization
The Java security architecture
In-depth analysis of Java exploitation
Motivation and contributions
Creating an exploit sample set
Modeling exploit behavior
Analysis and findings
Discussion
Related work
Conclusion
Hardening Java's information hiding
Motivation and contributions
Threat model
Proof-of-concept solution
Evaluation
Solution for productive use
Related work
Conclusion
Hardening Java's access control
Motivation and contributions
Comparison of privileged blocks and shortcuts
Problem statement
Proof-of-concept solution
Performance evaluation
Productive use and further research
Lessons learned
Related work
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Extension to the JVM instruction set