As was promised in the last posts, today we will discuss the development risks in the (de)fragmentation feature. From a security stand-point this is a Zero-Sum Game: a developer’s nightmare is a researcher’s goldmine, and defragmentation is a goldmine that seems to always payoff.
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As I promised in my previous post, here is an official public disclosure of CVE 2016-8633: linux kernel firewire driver remote code execution. The official fix was merged yesterday into the linux kernel, and so I can know talk freely about it.
During last August I made a security audit to an interesting embedded library I have found in Github: libcsp:
Cubesat Space Protocol – A small network-layer delivery protocol designed for Cubesats
This blog post will describe my findings, CVE 2016-8596, CVE 2016-8597, CVE 2016-8598, will publicly disclose the vulnerabilities and will elaborate on the lessons that can be learned from them.
Eyal Itkin 