CVE-2004-1038

HIGH 7.2CVE-2004-1038 · Published 01/03/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2004-1038 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting firewire ieee (ieee).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.48%, higher than 41.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firewire ieee ieee	`= 1394`	No fix yet

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.

References

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