Building Embedded Systems Like It’s 1996
Ruotong Yu, Francesca Del Nin, Yuchen Zhang, Shan Huang, Pallavi Kaliyar, Sarah Zakto, Mauro Conti, Georgios Portokalidis, Jun Xu
Abstract
Embedded devices are ubiquitous. However, preliminary evidence shows that attack mitigations protecting our desktops/servers/phones are missing in embedded devices, posing a significant threat to embedded security. To this end, this paper presents an in-depth study on the adoption of common attack mitigations on embedded devices. Precisely, it measures the presence of standard mitigations against memory corruptions in over 10k Linux-based firmware of deployed embedded devices.
Topics & Concepts
Computer scienceFirmwareReuseComputer securityEmbedded systemLinux kernelEmbedded softwareServerOperating systemSoftwareEngineeringWaste managementAdvanced Malware Detection TechniquesSecurity and Verification in ComputingDigital and Cyber Forensics