Summary:
Our default strategy for handling unknown code is to propagate taint from the actuals to the return value.
But for commonly-used methods like `StringBuilder.append` (used every time you do `+` with a string in Java), this doesn't work.
The taint should be propagated to both the receiver and the return value in these cases.
I'm considering a solution where we always propagate taint to the receiver of unknown functions in the future, but I am concerned about the performance.
So let's stick with a few special string cases for now.
Reviewed By: cristianoc
Differential Revision: D4124355
fbshipit-source-id: 5b2a232
Summary:
Right now, taint gets lost if it flows into a constructor or procedure whose implementation is missing.
Since the core Java (e.g., String) and Android classes (e.g, Intent) are among these, this is bad.
We could handle this by writing a bunch of models instead, but that would be a lot of work (plus we may still miss cases).
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D4051591
fbshipit-source-id: 65851c8
Sam Blackshear