Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System

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Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System
October 18, 2018
https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/amazon-freertos-iot-os.html

A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers.

Since late last year, FreeRTOS project is being managed by Amazon, who created Amazon FreeRTOS (a:FreeRTOS) IoT operating system for microcontrollers by upgrading FreeRTOS kernel and some of its components.
FreeRTOS Vulnerabilities and Security Patches
Ori Karliner, a security researcher at Zimperium Security Labs (zLabs), discovered a total of 13 vulnerabilities in FreeRTOS's TCP/IP stack [...]

The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to crash the target device, leak information from its memory, and the most worrisome, remotely execute malicious code on it, thus taking complete control over the target device.
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