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Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista
From: Tim <tim-security () sentinelchicken org>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:29:18 -0800
An anonymous list lurker asked me off-list to answer this question for "public gratification":
Can this feature be leveraged without drivers on the target system? IOW, if one just unloads (or doesn't load) the firewire driver, is it still exploitable?
No, I don't believe so. At least on Linux, the drivers have to explicitly open up access when they are loaded for the attack to work. By the chipset access restrictions are prevent this. Of course YMMV on particular pieces of hardware. There's just one vendor (Texas Instruments) who produces the vast majority of these chipsets though, so I doubt there's a large amount of variation from system to system. tim _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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