{"id":5778,"date":"2018-10-23T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:22:09","slug":"critical-flaws-found-in-amazon-freertos-iot-operating-system-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/10\/23\/critical-flaws-found-in-amazon-freertos-iot-operating-system-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting news about a security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in Amazon FreeRTOS, a embedded real-time operating systems, and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers. RTOS has specifically been designed to carefully run applications with very precise timing and a high degree of reliability, every time.<\/p>\n<p>The security researcher discovered a total of 13 vulnerabilities in FreeRTOS\u2019s TCP\/IP stack that also affect its variants maintained by Amazon and WHIS, as shown below:<br \/>\nfreeRTOS. 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/10\/amazon-freertos-iot-os.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting news about a security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in Amazon FreeRTOS, a embedded real-time operating systems, and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers. RTOS has specifically been designed to carefully run applications with very precise timing and a high degree of reliability, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722304],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-08-it-services-quality","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5779,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}