Re: Denial of Service Vulnerability in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Devices
* jpo@xxxxxxxxx (Jason Ostrom) [Mon 17 May 2004, 18:28 CEST]:
> I wasn't there, but I know the Deauth Flood attack is a very effective
> attack that most 802.11b networks are vulnerable to.
Janus Wireless, while not released publicly yet, also supports this:
http://peertech.org/janus/
http://peertech.org/janus/attacks.html
(this was formerly hosted on cubicmetercrystal.com.)
Tools like this should be part of any conference visitor's Unilateral
Quality-of-Service Toolkit, along with the DHCP server pool replenisher
and ICMP Source Quench generator.
> I saw this attack mentioned in at least one book, but I don't know why
> it wasn't released as a vulnerability. It is similar to the released
> vulnerability, but involves spoofed frames instead of the physical layer.
How does this "release as a vulnerability" work? Or are you wondering
why nobody up till now put out a sexed-up press release stating the obvious?
-- Niels.
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