full-disclosure - Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

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Message-ID: <F9C0B32C4FFE7147BD0FF6A40BE806E7038A4C@Hammer_Exchange.hammerofgod.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:11:43 -0800
From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@...merofgod.com>
To: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry@...ryseltzer.com>, "Peter Watkins" <peterw@....net>,
	"Roger A. Grimes" <roger@...neretcs.com>,
	"Bugtraq" <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Cc: Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Seltzer [mailto:Larry@...ryseltzer.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:51 AM
> To: Peter Watkins; Roger A. Grimes
> Cc: Bernhard Mueller; Full Disclosure; Bugtraq
> Subject: RE: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista
> 
> >>Roger, you should note that Adam's "Hit by a Bus" paper includes
> information about how Linux users can load their OS' Firewire driver
in
> a way that should disallow physical memory DMA access, and close this
> attack vector.
> 
> What are the implications for firewire device compatibility of doing
> this?

Probably the same as just disabling the 1394 bus host controller in
Vista ;)

t

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