IoT riddled with BadAlloc vulnerabilities

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has published advisory ICSA-21-119-04 about vulnerabilities found in multiple real-time operating systems RTOS and supporting libraries. Those operating systems and libraries are widely used in smart, Internet-connected "things". The numbe...

“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks

Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in order to execute malicious code or cause a system crash. These...

“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks

Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in order to execute malicious code or cause a system crash. These...