FreeRTOS riddled with severe vulnerabilities - Why care, becuase, there is a high possibility that you own one of the IoT Devices (includes those from Amazon) that is running this OS.

The bugs could allow hackers to crash connected devices in smart homes or critical infrastructure systems, leak information from the devices’ memory, and take them over.


FreeRTOS and SafeRTOS, for their part, “have been used in a wide variety of industries: IoT, Aerospace, Medical, Automotive, and more,” according to the company’s post. “Due to the high risk nature of devices in some of these industries, zLabs decided to take a look at the connectivity components that are paired with these OS’s. Clearly, devices that have connectivity to the outside world are at a higher degree of risk of being attacked.”


https://threatpost.com/aws-freertos-bugs-allow-compromise-of-iot-devices/138455/