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Communication Dans Un Congrès Lecture Notes in Computer Science Année : 2010

Enforcing Secure Object Initialization in Java

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Sun and the CERT recommend for secure Java development to not allow partially initialized objects to be accessed. The CERT considers the severity of the risks taken by not following this recommendation as high. The solution currently used to enforce object initialization is to implement a coding pattern proposed by Sun, which is not formally checked. We propose a modular type system to formally specify the initialization policy of libraries or programs and a type checker to statically check at load time that all loaded classes respect the policy. This allows to prove the absence of bugs which have allowed some famous privilege escalations in Java. Our experimental results show that our safe default policy allows to prove 91% of classes of java.lang, java.security and javax.security safe without any annotation and by adding 57 simple annotations we proved all classes but four safe. The type system and its soundness theorem have been formalized and machine checked using Coq.
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inria-00503953 , version 1 (19-07-2010)

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  • HAL Id : inria-00503953 , version 1
  • ARXIV : 1007.3133

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Laurent Hubert, Thomas Jensen, Vincent Monfort, David Pichardie. Enforcing Secure Object Initialization in Java. 15th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2010, Athènes, Greece. pp.101-115. ⟨inria-00503953⟩
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