Name: Lightning Talk: Protecting Zephyr Against Memory Safety Vulnerabilities With the New CHERI Hardware Architecture - Jennifer Jackson, University of Birmingham
Start: 2025-08-27T16:40:00+0200
End: 2025-08-27T16:50:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST

D202

There is currently an urgent need for companies to reduce and eventually eliminate software-based memory safety vulnerabilities from their product lines. This requirement begins with the underlying operating systems and extends to the applications that depend on them.

This talk will advocate that now is the right time for the Zephyr operating system to embrace an emerging new hardware architecture extension called CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) to protect its software and applications against memory vulnerabilities from being exploited.

The CHERI technology has a development history spanning nearly 15 years and is backed by the recent formation of the CHERI Alliance - a consortium of businesses (including ARM, Google and Microsoft), academic institutions, and government organisations.

The talk will provide a summary of the CHERI technology, the latest developments, and the work being done to provide CHERI-RISC-V architecture support for Zephyr.

Speakers

Jennifer Jackson

Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

Jennifer Jackson is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and has been working on projects involving CHERI-based hardware since 2021. She has a PhD from the University of Warwick and has worked both within academia and industry. Her background is in electronic engineering... Read More →

Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST
D202

Zephyr Developer Summit

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Jennifer Jackson

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