Title :
A Man-in-the-Middle Attack on 3G-WLAN Interworking
Author :
Zhang, Lizhuo ; Jia, Weijia ; Wen, Sheng ; Yao, Di
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ., Changsha, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a man-in-the-middle attack on 3G-WLAN internetworking, one of the widely used technologies in real-world deployment. Since 3G runs CS (Circuit Switch) in many practice and WLAN runs PS (Packet Switch), a gateway is necessary to perform protocol transforming to achieve internetworking of 3G and WLAN. However, the 3G-WLAN gateway is frangible to the kernel upgrade attack which allows the intruder to refresh the kernel of a valid 3G-WLAN gateway. By this means, the attacker can stealthily eavesdrop on all the UE-initiated (User Equipment) traffic from either 3G or WLAN during the protocol transforming and codec transcoding.
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; codecs; internetworking; wireless LAN; 3G-WLAN interworking; codec transcoding; kernel upgrade attack; man-in-the-middle attack; Cryptography; Internetworking; Kernel; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Packet switching; Protocols; Switches; Switching circuits; Wireless LAN; 3G-WLAN interworking; CS; Man-in-the-Middle attack; UE; video call eavesdropping;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6327-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6328-2
DOI :
10.1109/CMC.2010.34
