Full Disclosure: Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

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. ;)

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