2 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christopher Tate
ccbf84f44c Some system apps are more system than others
"signatureOrSystem" permissions are no longer available to all apps
residing en the /system partition.  Instead, there is a new /system/priv-app
directory, and only apps whose APKs are in that directory are allowed
to use signatureOrSystem permissions without sharing the platform cert.
This will reduce the surface area for possible exploits of system-
bundled applications to try to gain access to permission-guarded
operations.

The ApplicationInfo.FLAG_SYSTEM flag continues to mean what it is
says in the documentation: it indicates that the application apk was
bundled on the /system partition.  A new hidden flag FLAG_PRIVILEGED
has been introduced that reflects the actual right to access these
permissions.

At some point the "system" permission category will be
renamed to "privileged".

Bug 8765951

Change-Id: I6f0fd9cdb9170e076dfc66d83ecea76f8dd7335d
2013-06-17 12:47:35 -07:00
Jim Miller
c0b676dcc2 Add keyguard background scrim and protection around keyguard APIs
With this change, the system process will put up a scrim in the
event keyguard crashes to protect underlying content.

It also adds permission checks to prevent unathorized access
through the binder APIs.

Cleaned up KeyguardTestActivity to build separately.

Removed unused resources.

Change-Id: I9e370c6bfb7dca68eae9eae304c815fb84a753d2
2013-04-26 14:34:21 -07:00