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A Debian Developer has a good set of articles[1] on this vulnerability. It's really a pretty astonishing aspect of FireWire. Time to whip out the epoxy, I reck
by shapoopy 15y ago
A Debian Developer has a good set of articles[1] on this vulnerability. It's really a pretty astonishing aspect of FireWire.
Time to whip out the epoxy, I reckon.
[1]: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-firewire-dma-part-1-overview-and-mitigation http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...
- masklinn 15y ago> It's really a pretty astonishing aspect of FireWire. Not really. Note that LightPeak/Thunderbolt has the exact same issue. I believe it can be mitigated by the right IOMMU implementation (if the OS takes advantage of the feature).
- e28eta 15y agoI think this is a much better article to read, because it covers a variety of platforms, instead of grabbing headlines by talking about Lion, and it contains links to a variety of preexisting papers and tools, instead of regurgitating the contents of a press release