Attacker can use either a vulnerability in the card (if they know a suitable
one), regardless it is Ethernet or wlan, or they also might try to exploit a
legitimate feature. However, if you have VT-d supported by your CPU,
motherboard and BIOS, you should be safe against such attacks.
When Qube
Qubes uses VT-D to protect against DMA attacks on things such as WiFi chip.
But are there any proven DMA attacks against wired networking, i.e. Ethernet..?
Hackers can exploit a buffer overflow on the network card's firmware, and use
that to take control of the network card, and issue a DMA atta
