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.

Date published : 2004-11-16

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

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