full-disclosure - Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:06:11 +1000
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: dan@...para.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com> wrote:

>> Badly setup desktops: do not "hide extensions", maybe view details
>> (or list) not icons.
>
> All that matters is defaults, and icons are way more powerful ...

Those defaults are wrong, change them. Anyway, icons are shown
with "view details".

> The web browser and the email client are not designed to launch  
> arbitrary code. The desktop ... is.

This attack may happen through the browser (UNC paths or somesuch).
Any talk about USB sticks or desktops is bogus.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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