Expanding exploitation beyond X86 and Arm, into the realm of Xtensa: A comparative short study by Carel van Rooyen and Philipp Promeuschel

With over 100 million Xtensa devices distributed by January 2018, it is clear that this is becoming a very popular platform for IoT devices. This talk will assist security researchers in the future analysis of these devices (reverse engineering application code, developing exploits) to better understand the fundamental differences between ARM and Xtensa …