Keep me Updated: An Empirical Study of Third-Party Library Updatability on Android

Authors: Erik Derr, Sven Bugiel, Sascha Fahl, Yasemin Acar, Michael Backes - ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2017 cited by 163

Third-party libraries in Android apps have repeatedly been shown to be hazards to the users' privacy and an amplification of their host apps' attack surface. A particularly aggravating factor to this situation is that the libraries' version included in apps are very often outdated.