{"id":26252,"date":"2022-08-20T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=26252"},"modified":"2022-08-20T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T04:23:07","slug":"cve-2022-38392-janet-jackson-song-und-abstrzende-windows-xp-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/08\/20\/cve-2022-38392-janet-jackson-song-und-abstrzende-windows-xp-notebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2022-38392: Janet Jackson song and crashing Windows XP notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]It's a bizarre story that Microsoft developer Raymond Chen recently made public: Notebooks with Windows XP crashed when the pop song Rhythm Nation<\/a>  by Janet Jackson from 1989 was played. The background was that the hard disks used resonated and caused the crashes due to read\/write errors. There is now even a CVE number CVE-2022-38392 for this issue.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Chenheard the story from a colleague in Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson's \"Rhythm Nation\" was causing certain laptop models to crash. Microsoft was forced to investigate this in its labs. It was discovered that playing the music video also crashed the laptops of some of its competitors. During the tests, it was also discovered that a nearby laptop also crashed. However, no video was played on this notebook at all. <\/p>\n

Resonances as the root cause<\/h2>\n

During the analysis, it turned out that the song contained one of the natural resonance frequencies of the 5400 rpm hard drive installed in many notebooks at the time. This caused the surfaces of the discs (the rotating disks known as platters) in the hard drive to vibrate. This caused the read\/write heads to produce errors, which then resulted in a Windows XP crash. <\/p>\n

An audio filter helps<\/h2>\n

The notebook manufacturer got around the problem by inserting a custom filter into the sound card driver's audio pipeline that detected and removed the interfering frequencies during audio playback. Today, hardly anyone should remember this episode – if they come across the filter properties in question in the driver. In the meantime, notebook hard disks are also installed that work with 5,900 and more revolutions per minute and have other resonance frequencies. Furthermore, SSDs without mechanical components are usually installed today – the problem does not occur there. <\/p>\n

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I already came across this story on Golem<\/a> a few days ago. And then a blog reader pointed out in the discussion area that there is even a CVE number CVE-2022-38392<\/a> about it (thanks for that). The text of the CVE reads: A certain 5400 RPM OEM hard drive, as shipped with laptop PCs in approximately 2005, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (device malfunction and system crash) via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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