On 16 January 2012 15:10, Mike Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12-01-16 4:38 AM, Robin Wood wrote: >> Has anyone done this? Do organisations use PXE boot on network machines? > > I've thought about it, mostly from the "how to prevent it" perspective. > The most feasible answer I came up with is "hope it doesn't happen." > > I don't know about other organisations, but some places I've worked use > it. They tend to enable it only for machine installation, and disable it > again afterwards. The one group I was with that made heavy use, we had a > separate VLAN just for this. Enable PXE, change the VLAN, boot / > reinstall, disable PXE, change the VLAN back. > > I don't know what might break if you blocked the bits that PXE needs to > properly work on non-"reinstall" networks, but that could be a mitigation. > > Mike
So seeing as it may be a valid attack, anyone fancy writing Pixieboot to take advantage of this attack? Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
