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Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive


From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:12:12 -0400

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:51 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:29:32 EDT, Dan Kaminsky said:

Again, let me emphasize.  Really interesting vector, will probably end up
attached to an unambiguous flaw.  But right now, we're just seeing flaws
along the lines of "Double clicking an icon in Explorer might execute
arbitrary code".  It doesn't matter that that's true even if there's a
network share, or a USB stick.  That's what Explorer *does*.

And as I said, a fix that starts off with "First thing we do is feed
Explorer
to a pack of hungry dingos" won't fly with Joe Sixpack. ;)


Eh, no sense being so specific.  I'm sure the same sort of type confusion
tricks are possible in Finder, GNOME, KDE, etc.  Desktops run arbitrary
code.
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