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STEAMDISCOVER (steam_ihs_discovery)
Hey there,
was checking my gaming-traffic lately with wireshark: Running Steam on Ubuntu 18.04. using OpenVPN.
First thing I discoverd was that STEAMDISCOVER-protocol was send to broadcast (local). It contains some information about the computer used and the Steam-account.
Nothing unusual so far, but as I looked deeper into the packets I found that it would pull the MAC-adress of an interface which I previously manually took down via ifconfig (eth0).
Second thing: It pulled the original MAC-adress of my wlan0-interface which I was using and this MAC-adress was spoofed.
How does it do that? It seems that steam pulls these information directly from the chips, ignoring/bypassing the settings of the OS:
(Wanted to attach screenshots, but I'm not allowed until I have 60 points, lulz...)
Screenshots added:
STEAMDISCOVER (steam_ihs_discovery)
Hey there,
was checking my gaming-traffic lately with wireshark: Running Steam on Ubuntu 18.04. using OpenVPN.
First thing I discoverd was that STEAMDISCOVER-protocol was send to broadcast (local). It contains some information about the computer used and the Steam-account.
Nothing unusual so far, but as I looked deeper into the packets I found that it would pull the MAC-adress of an interface which I previously manually took down via ifconfig (eth0).
Second thing: It pulled the original MAC-adress of my wlan0-interface which I was using and this MAC-adress was spoofed.
How does it do that? It seems that steam pulls these information directly from the chips, ignoring/bypassing the settings of the OS:
(Wanted to attach screenshots, but I'm not allowed until I have 60 points, lulz...)
Screenshots added: