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.
Published: 2004-11-16
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2004-1036 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:38:59.834Z

Reserved: 2004-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-1038

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-03-01T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-1038

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