FireWire/IEEE 1394 Design Flaw: Unauthorized Memory Access via Modified Client

CVE-2004-1038 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

A design error in the IEEE1394 specification allows attackers with physical access to a device to read and write to sensitive memory using a modified FireWire/IEEE 1394 client, thus bypassing intended restrictions that would normally require greater degrees of physical access to exploit. NOTE: this was reported in 2008 to affect Windows Vista, but some Linux-based operating systems have protection mechanisms against this attack.

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