Vulnerability in Ieee Firewire

CVE-2004-1038

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.

EPSS: 0.005 (38.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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