CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1038

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-03-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-03-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ieee firewire ieee 1394

References