"The buffer-overflow flaw is in device drivers that Windows loads
whenever USB devices are inserted into computers running Windows 32-bit
operating systems, including Windows XP and Windows 2000, said Caleb
Sima, chief technology officer and founder of SPI Dynamics."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1840141,00.asp
Eweek article on the issue. The company will be demonstrating the
vulnerability at this week's Black Hat Briefings hacker conference in
Las Vegas, but will not release details of the security hole.
-Todd
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Parker [mailto:mparker@rim.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:05 PM
To: newyorkuser@gmail.com; pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Security with USB Devices
There was recently (Monday of this week) a vulnerability
disclosed with regards to a flaw in the USB driver that
affected Windows systems (verified) and *nix systems
(suspected). I don't have a directlink but it was on slashdot.
Michael Parker, BA (Hon), GSEC, MBCS
Information Security Coordinator
Research In Motion
Phone: 519.888.7465
Cell: 519.573.4782
mparker@rim.com
-----Original Message-----
From: NewYork User <newyorkuser@gmail.com>
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Tue Jul 26 10:51:40 2005
Subject: Security with USB Devices
List,
Does any one know a good program to "autorun" from USB drive
on a windows 2000 or an XP machine? I have tried the
traditional Autorun.inf but didn't have any luck. I looked up
in google but couldn't find any useful stuff. I saw some
commercial programs to use for backup etc..But its not of any
use if I want to prove my point that data can be vulnerable
if use of USB drives is not restricted either by using a
program or any kind of security control. I created a simple
batch file to open up a Netcat listener. It is pretty common
for the users lock their machines and leave their desks. I'm
looking for any kind of scripts that can run a batch file
automatically or can copy the data automatically. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
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