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Searching for vulnerabilities and validating that they can threaten your embedded software is a time-consuming process even for an experienced developer. Fortunately, we can significantly speed it up by automating it. Automation tools save hours of work for someone looking for security issues. Usually, they locate a known vulnerability or suspicious code, after which the QA specialist or developer has to analyze it and decide whether this code really creates a vulnerability and needs to be fixed.
Also, they might not discover all potential vulnerabilities in software and may return false positives. It can use an image of the firmware or a tar. The output is a list of versions of all the files inside the firmware and all corresponding vulnerabilities from the National Vulnerability Database. However, it automates the initial stages of the vulnerability search. For example, FACT needs approximately half an hour to analyze firmware that consists of 3, files and takes up 1 GB of disk space.
The average developer needs at least several hours to analyze such firmware manually and draft a list of possible vulnerabilities. Emba is another helpful tool that allows security testers to analyze firmware images for Linux-based embedded devices and RTOS-based systems. It can also analyze kernel configurations. During analysis, emba highlights suspicious code in the firmware that can cause a vulnerability. FwAnalyzer is a tool for analyzing file system images.
FwAnalyzer compares the file system image to the comparison file created by developers that contains various rules for firmware files and directories. It also helps developers check the contents of files, extract data from them, and detect changes in different versions of files and file trees. As a result of its analysis, FwAnalyzer creates a report that contains all differences it discovered or the data a developer requested. Collecting as much information on first-day vulnerabilities as possible is one of the first steps to securing embedded software.
At Apriorit, our expert teams of embedded software developers and security testing specialists work hand in hand to ensure the software they create is not only efficient but secure. To date, Microsoft has not seen any indications of these vulnerabilities being exploited. However, we strongly encourage organizations to patch their systems as soon as possible. For devices that cannot be patched immediately, we recommend mitigating controls such as: reducing the attack surface by minimizing or eliminating exposure of vulnerable devices to the internet; implementing network security monitoring to detect behavioral indicators of compromise; and strengthening network segmentation to protect critical assets, as described in the mitigations section at the end of this blog post.
All of these vulnerabilities stem from the usage of vulnerable memory functions such as malloc, calloc, realloc, memalign, valloc, pvalloc, and more. Our research shows that memory allocation implementations written throughout the years as part of IoT devices and embedded software have not incorporated proper input validations.
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