[RndTbl] Intel ethernet - h/w remote DoS exploit!

Adam Thompson athompso at athompso.net
Wed Feb 6 16:42:17 CST 2013


This guy explains it better than I can, but the meat of it is that a large number of Intel Ethernet controllers in the field are susceptible to a firmware bug that can shut down the Ethernet port remotely.

 

http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html

 

Wow.  Just, wow.

 

Meanwhile, Broadcom controllers have their own persistent bugs.  Whose Ethernet chipsets can you rely on now?!?

 

-Adam Thompson

athompso at athompso.net <mailto:athompso at athompso.net> 

 

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