Boeing 787 must be rebooted every 248 days to avoid a shutdown due to a security bug. in May 2015, F.A.A urged all airlines to reboot their Boeing Dreamliner every 248 days, otherwise, the plane will lose all electrical power. Find out what happened and how you can avoid this class of security bugs in your program.
Back in May 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A) told us about a serious problem: a bug that could totally turn off the power in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, making the plane hard to control. Nobody wants that while flying, right? But guess what? This bug wasn't super complicated, even though airplanes need to be super safe.
Let’s head to the lab to discover, debug, and fix this vulnerability within an actual application.
We learned from a big mistake with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner - a simple oversight caused a big problem. Numeric overflow bugs are old but still pop up in places like rocket launches and video games. These vulnerabilities occur when our program can't handle an unusual situation, letting attackers harm our program.
In this lab, you will learn how to find, exploit and fix a numeric overflow (integer overflow) vulnerability in a program inspired by Boeing 787 shutdown incident.
