Assessment of palm OS susceptibility to malicious code threats

Authors:
Tom Goovaerts;Bart De Win;Bart De Decker;Wouter Joosen
Affiliations:
DistriNet Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;DistriNet Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;DistriNet Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;DistriNet Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Venue:
CMS'05 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 international conference on Communications and Multimedia Security
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The Palm OS operating system for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones has a weak security architecture, which introduces all sorts of security problems. This paper specifically targets the problem of malicious code. The main contribution of this work is the in-depth analysis of different vulnerabilities in Palm OS and the ways in which they can be exploited by malicious code. Furthermore, the key reasons for this problem are discussed and some suggestions for improvement are formulated.