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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:35:53 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Malicious devices & vulnerabilties
* Kurt Seifried:
> Firewire has DMA.
>
> http://cansecwest.com/core05/2005-firewire-cansecwest.swf
>
> eSATA - also does DMA.
>
> Thunderbolt also does DMA.
>
> In other words a lot of the newer/higher end interfaces all do DMA
> which is ... a problem.
Gigabit Ethernet adapters also do DMA. Is it really the case that the
(e)SATA implementation is as problematic as IEEE 1394? I don't think
SATA exposes the DMA functionality over the wire.
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