Milliways
📶 Analyzing Cellular Basebands with FirmWire 🔎
August 17, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Add to calendar
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Add to calendar
Milliways
Last year, we released FirmWire to the public, an open-source baseband analysis platform.
But what even is a baseband and why do we want to analyze it? Hint: It’s a critical part of your phone and a first point of entry for attacks.
This talk will answer your questions and provide a hands-on introduction to our framework.
This talk will discuss cellular basebands and FirmWire, our open-source platform for baseband firmware. The platform allows researchers to emulate, dynamically debug, introspect, and interact with complex baseband firmware, providing insights about its inner workings in real-time.
FirmWire’s integrated ModKit creates and injects custom tasks into the emulated baseband.
We leverage the ModKit for full-system fuzzing via AFL++ by creating custom fuzzing tasks interacting with the host, using special hypercalls.
With this setup, we uncovered several pre-authentication vulnerabilities in the LTE and GSM stacks of Samsung’s Shannon and MediaTek’s MTK baseband implementations, affecting billions of devices.
FirmWire is the outcome of a more than two-year-long international research collaboration between the University of Florida, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, TU Berlin, and Ruhr-University Bochum.
Additional information
| Live Stream | https://streaming.media.ccc.de/camp2023/milliways |
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| Type | Talk |
| Language | English |
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