What is FreeRTOS (Amazon, WHIS OpenRTOS, SafeRTOS)?
FreeRTOS is a leading opened upward source real-time operating organization (RTOS) for embedded systems that has been ported to over forty microcontrollers, which are beingness used inwards IoT, aerospace, medical, automotive industries, together with more.
RTOS has specifically been designed to carefully run applications amongst rattling precise timing together with a high score of reliability, every time.
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Since belatedly concluding year, FreeRTOS projection is beingness managed past times Amazon, who created Amazon FreeRTOS (a:FreeRTOS) IoT operating organization for microcontrollers past times upgrading FreeRTOS nitty-gritty together with closed to of its components.
Amazon enhanced FreeRTOS functionalities past times adding modules for secure connectivity, over the air updates, code signing, AWS cloud support, together with more.
Besides Amazon, WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) likewise maintains ii variants of FreeRTOS—a commercial version of FreeRTOS called WHIS OpenRTOS, together with a safety-oriented RTOS called SafeRTOS, for usage inwards safety-critical devices.
FreeRTOS Vulnerabilities together with Security Patches
Ori Karliner, a security researcher at Zimperium Security Labs (zLabs), discovered a total of thirteen vulnerabilities inwards FreeRTOS's TCP/IP stack that likewise impact its variants maintained past times Amazon together with WHIS, every bit shown below:
The vulnerabilities could permit attackers to crash the target device, leak information from its memory, together with the close worrisome, remotely execute malicious code on it, thence taking consummate command over the target device.
"During our research, nosotros discovered multiple vulnerabilities inside FreeRTOS’s TCP/IP stack together with inwards the AWS secure connectivity modules. The same vulnerabilities are introduce inwards WHIS Connect TCP/IP element for OpenRTOS\SafeRTOS," the researcher says.
According to the researcher, the vulnerabilities impact FreeRTOS versions upward to 10.0.1 (with FreeRTOS+TCP), AWS FreeRTOS versions upward to 1.3.1, together with WHIS OpenRTOS together with SafeRTOS (With WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP components).
Zimperium responsibly reported the vulnerabilities to Amazon, together with the fellowship yesterday deployed security patches for AWS FreeRTOS versions 1.3.2 together with onwards (latest v1.4.2).
"We likewise received confirmation from WHIS that they were exposed to the same vulnerabilities, together with those were patched together amongst Amazon," zLabs says.
To permit smaller vendors to spell the issues earlier attackers endeavor to leverage them, zLabs has decided non to discover technical details of these vulnerabilities to the populace for at to the lowest degree a month.
