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

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Message-Id: <201008312234.o7VMYlT6017279@bari.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 08:34:47 +1000
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: uuf6429@...il.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, cmorris@...odu.edu
Subject: Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com> wrote:

> Why do you say harmless? Because you know a text file can't do
> anything at all.

Exactly. The victim is attempting to view a plain text file. Surely
that can be done safely?

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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