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Security researchers have disclosed details today about 11 vulnerabilities known collectively as "Urgent11" that impact a wide range of devices, from routers to medical systems, and from printers to industrial equipment.
The vulnerabilities affect VxWorks, a real-time operating system created by Wind River.
Real-time operating systems (RTOSes) are simple pieces of software with very few features that are deployed on chipsets with access to a limited amount of resources, such as the chipsets used in modern Internet of Things (IoT) devices -- where the chipsets only need to manage input/output operations, with little data processing and no need for a visual interface.
Among all RTOS versions, VxWorks is today's most popular product, deployed on more than two billion devices, according to Wind River's website. However, in its 32-year history, only 13 security flaws with a MITRE-asigned CVE have been found in the VxWorks RTOS.
VxWorks' popularity and the lack of any attention from the security community were the two reasons why experts from IoT cybersecurity firm Armis decided to analyze the OS for security flaws, the company told ZDNet in a phone call last week.
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Security researchers have disclosed details today about 11 vulnerabilities known collectively as "Urgent11" that impact a wide range of devices, from routers to medical systems, and from printers to industrial equipment.
The vulnerabilities affect VxWorks, a real-time operating system created by Wind River.
Real-time operating systems (RTOSes) are simple pieces of software with very few features that are deployed on chipsets with access to a limited amount of resources, such as the chipsets used in modern Internet of Things (IoT) devices -- where the chipsets only need to manage input/output operations, with little data processing and no need for a visual interface.
Among all RTOS versions, VxWorks is today's most popular product, deployed on more than two billion devices, according to Wind River's website. However, in its 32-year history, only 13 security flaws with a MITRE-asigned CVE have been found in the VxWorks RTOS.
VxWorks' popularity and the lack of any attention from the security community were the two reasons why experts from IoT cybersecurity firm Armis decided to analyze the OS for security flaws, the company told ZDNet in a phone call last week.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/topic/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Urgent11
https://www.scoop.it/topic/securite-pc-et-internet