full-disclosure - Secuirty Hole Found In Dave's Sock

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Message-ID: <00bb01c5b4a3$e0f68b50$0e3eac18@MLANDE>
Date: Thu Sep  8 19:23:52 2005
From: mlande at bellsouth.net (Mary Landesman)
Subject: Secuirty Hole Found In Dave's Sock

This flaw is incredibly old. In the latter part of the 90s, Dr. Solomon's
antivirus team assisted afflicted users by distributing socks at various
worldwide conferences. Alas, the socks - and presumably the antivirus
software - were later acquired by McAfee, Inc. Since then, McAfee has not
only failed to continue supporting the socks that were released by Solomon,
it has not updated nor released any further socks. As such, the
vulnerability has been largely ignored - only to be 'rediscovered' by Dave
several years later.

Another flaw with Dave's report: He indicates the vulnerable system is the
Right sock. Indeed, research consistently indicates the Left sock is equally
vulnerable.

Regards,
-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Cawley" <dave.cawley@...lphia.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Secuirty Hole Found In Dave's Sock

Date: 9/8/2005

Vulnerability Found:   Hole In Dave's Socket

Affected System: Dave's Right Sock

Severity: Rating: Moderately Critical
Impact: System access
Where:  Foot

Description of Vulnerability:  This morning while putting my socks
on I found a small (1/4 inch) hole by my big toe. This could be
exploited by a virus through the bottom of the foot or under the
toe nail. This could be used to compromise Dave's entire system.

Solution: No permanent solution is currently available. A work
around is to wear the sock on the other foot to have the hole
above the small toe where it will not be furthur enlarged, it
will proboably fold over and partially cover the vulnerability.
Permanent solution coming in either a sock darning or upgrading
the unit to a new sock.

Time Table: Found at 7:48am on Sept 8th, 1005
Work around figured out at 7:49am on Sept 8th,
2005
Permanent Solution Pending

Credits: Found by Dave

References: No references available.

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