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

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:05:05 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:39:04 PDT, Dan Kaminsky said:

> There may very well be a legitimate boundary cross from this DLL  
> stuff, but we haven't seen it yet. All the present stuff has the  
> indelible mark of a false boundary, in that no fix can be imagined  
> that actually closes the vector.

Oh you're wrong there Dan.  I can imagine fixes that would close the
vector (starting with fixes that impose a legitimate enforcable boundary).

Fixes that will be accepted by Joe Sixpack? I think we saw where UAC ended up. :)

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