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

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:52:38 +1000
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: cmorris@...odu.edu, matt@...ackvector.org
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

Charles Morris <cmorris@...odu.edu> wrote:

> ... Don't run applications from untrusted locations ...

You got it wrong. Only trusted applications are run. - The attacker
prepares a WORD.DOC (and a RICHED20.DLL) file in some place. The
victim clicks on the WORD.DOC file, using his own installed MSWord.

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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