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Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash
From: "'Richard M. Smith'" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:49:43 -0400
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/epassport Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash By Kim Zetter 08.01.07 | 2:00 AM A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them. Lukas Grunwald, an RFID expert who has served as an e-passport consultant to the German parliament, says the security flaws allow someone to seize and clone the fingerprint image stored on the biometric e-passport, and to create a specially coded chip that attacks e-passport readers that attempt to scan it. Grunwald says he's succeeded in sabotaging two passport readers made by different vendors by cloning a passport chip, then modifying the JPEG2000 image file containing the passport photo. Reading the modified image crashed the readers, which suggests they could be vulnerable to a code-injection exploit that might, for example, reprogram a reader to approve expired or forged passports. "If you're able to crash something you are most likely able to exploit it," says Grunwald, who's scheduled to discuss the vulnerabilities this weekend at the annual DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash 'Richard M. Smith' (Aug 01)
- RE: Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash Larry Seltzer (Aug 01)
- RE: Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash rms (Aug 01)
- Re: Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash Florian Weimer (Aug 01)
- RE: Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash Gadi Evron (Aug 05)
- RE: Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash rms (Aug 01)
- RE: Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash Larry Seltzer (Aug 01)