Man-in-the-middle attack on 3G-WLAN interworking

Lizhuo Zhang; Weijia Jia; Sheng Wen; Di Yao

doi:10.1109/CMC.2010.34

Man-in-the-middle attack on 3G-WLAN interworking

Lizhuo Zhang
, Weijia Jia
, Sheng Wen
, Di Yao

Department of Computer Science

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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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. © 2010 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010
Pages	121-125
Volume	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CMC.2010.34
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	2010 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010 - Shenzhen, China Duration: 12 Apr 2010 → 14 Apr 2010

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Name	2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010
Volume	1

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Conference	2010 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010
Place	China
City	Shenzhen
Period	12/04/10 → 14/04/10

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This work is supported in part by ITF (the Innovation and Technology Fund of the HKSAR Government) under the Guangdong-Hong Kong Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme. We would like to thank the Future Networking Center of City University of Hong Kong and Professor Weijia Jia, they give us lots of help, especially on experimental platform and environment.

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Zhang, L, Jia, W, Wen, S & Yao, D 2010, Man-in-the-middle attack on 3G-WLAN interworking. in 2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010. vol. 1, 5471501, 2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010, vol. 1, pp. 121-125, 2010 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010, Shenzhen, China, 12/04/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/CMC.2010.34

Man-in-the-middle attack on 3G-WLAN interworking. / Zhang, Lizhuo; Jia, Weijia; Wen, Sheng et al.
2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010. Vol. 1 2010. p. 121-125 5471501 (2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010; Vol. 1).

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