[Battlemesh] Exploit code on the wifi chip

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Apr 7, 2017 23:45, "Paul Fuxjaeger" <paul.fuxjaeger at gmx.at> wrote:

On 07/04/2017 22:14, Ben West wrote:
> The ars tech story points refers to this story by Google.
> https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-
exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html

claims that:

"a vast amount of this research applies to other systems including the
same Wi-Fi SoCs"

"In the next blog post, we’ll see how we can use our assumed control of
the Wi-Fi SoC in order to further escalate our privileges into the
application processor, taking over the host’s operating system!"

uh oh.


Reminds me of a paper that tried to estimate "how many minutes it may
take for a baseband worm to spread over a large city", depending on the
current density of devices. Mind boggling stuff.

Will those worms install a proper mesh routing protocol while there at
it? :)


The OLPC had a marvel wifi chip that had its own routing table with its
aodv style routing proto.

And those chips got more powerful with the time.
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