On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:34:45PM -0600, J Moore wrote:
> I received the following from the SANS mailing list earlier today:
>
> Windows laptops with wireless cards that use Broadcom device drivers
> (Broadcom chips are used in machines from HP, Dell, Gateway, and
> eMachines) are directly vulnerable to the attack that has gotten so much
> press on Macintosh wireless. You are vulnerable if your wireless card
> is turned on, even if you are not connected to a wireless access point.
>
> Does anyone know if the vulnerability is actuall in the OS (Windoze) or
> is it in the driver itself?
>
i have no idea and i don't really care... you should read:
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39
i remember that there was a bug in atheros' hal blob which could be
used to freeze accesspoints running on linux/madwifi, freebsd, and
even vxworks. it probably got fixed in newer hal releases (who knows?)
but the same blob is used in windows, netbsd, opensolaris and many
other operating systems... except openbsd.
reyk
