From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Wolfgang Breyha <wbreyha@gmx.net>,
"Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iwlwifi havoc on some APs (rekeying?)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:55:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323903308.3599.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALSq=BauniFumdhaSRXn2myh8oL7=7wFkkXGJFo8mdQYmddFeA@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20111214_235154_524302_D0498605)
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 14:51 -0800, Daniel Halperin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe we somehow invented the best fuzzer ever? Wrongly decrypted
> > packets being sent up without being dropped, and your video stream and
> > firefox hating random binary data in the middle of the input?
> >
>
> Seems unlikely---how would random binary data get properly put into
> the right TCP streams...
Hm, good point. So memory corruption in the applications using the
network? Why would it be restricted to those applications? (not to even
mention why would it be restricted to 32-bit kernels on 64-bit systems
then?)
I wish I could reproduce it, maybe it would be possible to bisect?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 14:50 iwlwifi havoc on some APs (rekeying?) Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-09 16:02 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2011-12-09 18:05 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-09 17:23 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2011-12-09 18:26 ` Johannes Berg
2011-12-09 17:44 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2011-12-10 13:02 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-12 9:04 ` Johannes Berg
2011-12-12 10:09 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-12 10:12 ` Johannes Berg
2011-12-12 11:21 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-12 17:48 ` Johannes Berg
2011-12-12 18:17 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-13 15:38 ` Johannes Berg
2011-12-14 14:22 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-14 22:10 ` Johannes Berg
2011-12-14 22:51 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-12-14 22:55 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-12-14 23:07 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-15 0:46 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-15 13:01 ` Johannes Berg
2011-12-15 19:47 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2011-12-12 19:39 ` Wolfgang Breyha
2012-02-18 13:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-24 7:25 ` Johannes Berg
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