Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:23:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org.>
To: [email protected]Subject: Taking Over Laptops by Fuzzing Wireless Drivers
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Some news items showed up in the past couple of days about vulnerabilities
in wireless device drivers. These vulnerabilities were apparently found by
the use of a 802.11 Fuzzing tool called lorcon
(http://www.802.11mercenary.net/lorcon/).
Apparently, David Maynor and Jon Ellch intend to demonstrate taking over a
laptop by the use of a wireless driver vulnerability next month at Black
Hat USA 2006.
I personally intend to go only to defcon, but this will be cool. :)
Disclaimer: My employer, Beyond Security, are the makers of the beSTORM
2nd Generation Fuzzing product.
Gadi.
