Compiler-based security mitigations in Android P
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/06/compiler-based-security-mitigations-in.html [android-developers.googleblog.com]
2018-07-13 17:44
Android’s switch to LLVM/Clang as the default platform compiler in Android 7.0 opened up more possibilities for improving our defense-in-depth security posture. In the past couple of releases, we’ve rolled out additional compiler-based mitigations to make bugs harder to exploit and prevent certain types of bugs from becoming vulnerabilities. In Android P, we’re expanding our existing compiler mitigations, which instrument runtime operations to fail safely when undefined behavior occurs. This post describes the new build system support for Control Flow Integrity and Integer Overflow Sanitization.
source: grugq