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

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:12:12 -0400
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:51 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...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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