The automotive software vulnerabilities hiding in your dashboard Pop the hood on a new car and you won’t find much you can fix with a wrench. What you’ll find is software, and a lot of it. The screen in the dash probably runs Android or a flavor of Linux. The system watching the road for you might run QNX or VxWorks, the same kind of code that flies aircraft and runs factory floors. Carmakers spent the last decade making this switch, and it bought them app stores, wireless updates, and quicker release cycles. It also handed them something less welcome: every old, publicly documented bug those platforms have collected over the years. Researchers at Télécom SudParis decided to count that baggage. They built a scanner called VERA, aimed it at the operating systems inside current cars, and…