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RE: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista
- To: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Peter Watkins" <peterw@xxxxxxx>, "Roger A. Grimes" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Bugtraq" <bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista
- From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:11:43 -0800
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Seltzer [mailto:Larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> 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 ;)
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