200 million enterprise, industrial, and medical devices affected by RCE flaws in VxWorks RTOS | Linux Today

200 million enterprise, industrial, and medical devices affected by RCE flaws in VxWorks RTOS

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Jul 29, 2019

Armis researchers have discovered 11 vulnerabilities (including 6 critical RCE flaws) in Wind River VxWorks, a real-time operating system used by more than two billion devices across industrial, medical and enterprise environments.

Collectively dubbed “Urgent11”, they are estimated to impact ???SCADA systems, elevators, industrial controllers, patient monitors and MRI machines, as well as firewalls, routers, ???satellite modems, VOIP phones and printers???.

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