On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 12:08:54 AM UTC-4, raah...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 12:00:11 AM UTC-4, raah...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 11:57:48 PM UTC-4, neilh...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > But it's still not clear how these malicious packets can be sent to the 
> > > network card.... can these be sent after compromising an App VM (via 
> > > something like a browser exploit)...?? 
> > > 
> > > Or can they be sent just purely over the internet itself to any device 
> > > connected to the web...? Directly send packets just over the web?
> > > 
> > > Or does it require attacking the Net VM, and not just the App VM... 
> > > however that would be done...?
> > > 
> > > I'm just trying to figure out FROM WHERE the network card could be 
> > > attacked.
> > 
> > all network packets go to your network card.  I'm not sure what you mean?  
> > It can be attacked from anywhere in the world wide web.
> 
> I guess you are asking me specifically how?  I dunno man i'm a noob.  I guess 
> there is many ways,  for example reverse shell from buggy dhclient or icmp 
> packet.  or who the heck knows.  Probably too many possibilities to list.  
> Joannas blog mentioned poc from buffer overflow.
> 
> Anothing thing to consider is you have to trust the intel firmware sometimes.

I guess I would also assume wireless network card to be more vulnerable,  but 
maybe someone more expert can reply.

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