[iwar] [fc:Wireless.vulnerabilities.that.expose.the.wired.network]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Wireless.vulnerabilities.that.expose.the.wired.network]
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Wireless Access Points and ARP Poisoning:
Wireless vulnerabilities that expose the wired network
Bob Fleck &lt;<a href="mailto:rfleck@cigital.com?Subject=Re:%20Wireless%20Access%20Points%20and%20ARP%20Poisoning%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;20011019114843.B16608@securityfocus.com">rfleck@cigital.com</a>, Jordan Dimov &lt;<a href="mailto:jdimov@cigital.com?
Subject=Re:%20Wireless%20Access%20Points%20and%20ARP%20Poisoning%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;20011019114843.B16608@securityfocus.com">jdimov@cigital.com</a>

Address resolution protocol (ARP) cache poisoning is a MAC layer attack
that can only be carried out when an attacker is connected to the same
local network as the target machines, limiting its effectiveness only to
networks connected with switches, hubs, and bridges; not routers.  Most
802.11b access points acts as transparent MAC layer bridges, which allow
ARP packets to pass back and forth between the wired and wireless
networks.  This implementation choice for access points allows ARP cache
poisoning attacks to be executed against systems that are located behind
the access point.  In unsafe deployments, wireless attackers can
compromise traffic between machines on the wired network behind the
wireless network, and also compromise traffic between other wireless
machine including roaming clients in other cells.  Of particular note is
the vulnerability of home combination devices that offer a wireless
access point, a switch, and a DSL/cable modem router in one package. 
These popular consumer devices allow a wireless attacker to compromise
traffic between computes connected to the built-in switch. 

<a href="http://www.cigitallabs.com/resources/papers/download/arppoison.pdf">http://www.cigitallabs.com/resources/papers/download/arppoison.pdf>

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