Skip to content

RTOS is running with uVisor privileges #235

@Patater

Description

@Patater

When we integrated uVisor and an RTOS in the 'dev' branch, we did not yet de-privilege the RTOS. All RTOS-specific code, like mutexes, the scheduler, timers, and so forth currently run with uVisor privileges. Some uVisor-to-RTOS glue code in uvisor-lib also runs with uVisor privileges. This is not final and we must fix it.

Ideally, no code would run privileged outside the reproducibly built uVisor binary. This enables us to make security promises because all privileged code would run inside a the reproducible uVisor binary.

Furthermore, removing uVisor privileges from the RTOS will reduce the attack surface of systems built with uVisor.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions