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38 from 31 May 2021 to 21 Aug 2026
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2026 6

  1. Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-bit Embedded Systems
  2. Integrity on Embedded Linux Devices under the Cyber Resilience Act
  3. TrustZone Intermezzo: Broken OP-TEE Memory Isolation on i.MX 8M
  4. You probably don't need Yocto, and that's fine
  5. Data Confidentiality via Storage Encryption on Embedded Linux Devices
  6. TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats

2025 4

  1. Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It's 1973
  2. The Evolving Landscape of Yocto Project Setup: bitbake-setup vs. KAS
  3. Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-Year-Old Surprise
  4. Filesystem Vulnerabilities in Bootloaders: A Hidden Risk for Verified Boot Mechanisms

2024 4

  1. sigma-star-sa-2024-001: CHAP authentication bypass in user-space Linux target framework (tgt) up to v1.0.92 (CVE-2024-45751)
  2. Thoughts on Linux CNA's Approach and the Resulting CVE Flood
  3. Pseudo Graceful Process Termination through Code Injection
  4. A Time Consuming Pitfall for 32-bit Applications on AArch64

2023 10

  1. Investigating Paranormal Shell Activities
  2. Analyzing Packet Drops Without Tooling: Or ftrace the Pure Way
  3. No Love for Negative Permissions
  4. CVE-2023-31147: Insufficient randomness for DNS query identifiers in c-ares
  5. Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel
  6. Embedded Open Source Summit 2023 in Prague
  7. Who's your canary?
  8. Restricting network access using Linux Network Namespaces
  9. Too many CPUs to build
  10. Restricting file system access using Linux Mount Namespaces

2022 8

  1. Training: Kernel Internals for Linux Admins
  2. Securely booting x86 using Heads
  3. Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit 2022
  4. EROFS vs. SquashFS: A Gentle Benchmark
  5. Our ProtonMail Adventure - A Five Act Drama
  6. Summit on a Summit 2022 Edition
  7. Linux process priorities demystified
  8. Re-exploiting unsquashfs

2021 6

  1. Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit 2021
  2. How security-integration for IT Startups works best
  3. Enhanced Read-Only File System (EROFS) lands in Yocto
  4. Docker to the rescue in an unexpected way
  5. The condemned live longer: Symlink races
  6. Who is sigma star und who is the team