VxWorks, which has been in use since the 1980s ... said Armis, and the proprietary source code makes it more difficult to detect problems. Armis argued that more attention has to be paid by ...

It famously runs Linux and was the source of much hacking back in the ... Now they are using a proprietary Real Time Operating System called VxWorks. [Craig] recently put together a reverse ...

Linux is hosting an ever-growing number of embedded applications. The migration of embedded applications from VxWorks and pSOS real-time Linux distributions, like Hard Hat Linux, is now a lot ...

VxWorks is closed source, so assessing it for vulnerabilities is not easy. In a white paper published today, Armis explains that its researchers downloaded outdated source code and reverse ...

Formaggio and his fellow researchers created their own “fuzzing” tool, which threw data at VxWorks to see where ... but if they did the exploit code could run without any interaction from ...

For the 32-bit section, a proprietary operating system VxWorks was initially selected ... We started this process by downloading the Etherboot source codes from the home page and compile them for the ...

Not all of the vulnerabilities exist in all VxWorks versions, but most versions are affected by at least one of them. The remote code execution flaws can be exploited by simply sending maliciously ...