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We recently announced the launch of Zephyr 26.04 LTS, bringing up to 15 years of security maintenance per LTS and enterprise lifecycle management to microcontroller-grade devices. While central high-performance computer ECUs capture most of the industry spotlight in software-defined vehicle (SDV) architectures, the operational reality of modern vehicles is far more distributed.

Max Justicz discovered and responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in APT, the package manager used in Debian, Ubuntu, and derivative Linux distributions. The vulnerability has been assigned the identifier CVE-2026-109518 and has a severity of High. An on-path attacker who can manipulate the HTTP traffic between a system and an archive server can trigger the installation of an attacker-controlled.deb package file and obtain root privileges on the target system.

If you work with robots, perhaps you’ve come up against a common, but annoying situation: the one field run that mattered is the one nobody recorded. Or it was recorded but the ROS 2 bag (a recording of ROS 2 topics) is sitting in the robot’s storage, at a customer site, three time zones away. This issue is commonly caused by manually starting ros2 bag record and using scp to copy gigabytes off the robot after every test, which just does not scale.