[Starlink] Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware | COSIC

[Starlink] Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware | COSIC

[David Lang]

they were able to read from the flash storage on the dish and get a root shell 
on it.

https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/dumping-and-extracting-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-firmware/

David Lang

Re: [Starlink] Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware | COSIC

[Gary E. Miller]

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Yo David!

On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 11:23:01 -0700 (PDT)
David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:

> they were able to read from the flash storage on the dish and get a
> root shell on it.
> 
> https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/dumping-and-extracting-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-firmware/

Thanks for the link.  Some impressive hacking!

RGDS
GARY
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Re: [Starlink] Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware | COSIC

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> they were able to read from the flash storage on the dish and get a root shell 
> on it.

I do not believe they got a root shell, the terminal is locked down
fairly well by use of a fuse map.  Unless I missed something, they
never got past that issue.

> 
> https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/dumping-and-extracting-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-firmware/
> 
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Re: [Starlink] Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware | COSIC

[Nathan Owens]

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> At the time of writing we were able to obtain a root shell on the UT, but
it’s too early to publicly share more information on that matter.

They say they got root shell..

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 5:49 AM Rodney W. Grimes <starlink@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

> > they were able to read from the flash storage on the dish and get a root
> shell
> > on it.
>
> I do not believe they got a root shell, the terminal is locked down
> fairly well by use of a fuse map.  Unless I missed something, they
> never got past that issue.
>
> >
> >
> https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/dumping-and-extracting-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-firmware/
> >
> > David Lang
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