CVE-2004-1038

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18041

http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/hack-into-a-windows-pc-no-password-needed/2008/03/04/1204402423638.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489342/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489335/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489330/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489322/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489296/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489295/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489269/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489257/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489212/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489189/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489175/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489163/100/0/threaded

http://www.sec-consult.com/fileadmin/Whitepapers/Vista_Physical_Attacks.pdf

http://storm.net.nz/static/files/ab_firewire_rux2k6-final.pdf

http://storm.net.nz/projects/16

http://pacsec.jp/advisories.html

http://md.hudora.de/presentations/firewire/2005-firewire-cansecwest.pdf

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109881362530790&w=2

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/04/1258210

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS