The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued two warnings on flaws in the embedded systems OS technology VxWorks as discovered by researcher HD Moore. One flaw deals with weakness in the hashing algorithm of the API authentication; The second regards debug settings being enabled by default and affects nearly 60 vendors products. The critical Intel vulnerability could allow unauthenticated attackers gain escalated privileges on Intel vPro corporate systems. Two critical flaws in Intel AMT were patched along with 20 other bugs in its June security update.
Source: https://threatpost.com/us-cert-warns-vxworks-flaws-080610/74304/