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System Exploitable With USB

Posted by Zonk on from the good-thing-no-one-uses-that dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device." From the article: "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."

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  1. Not new idea by makomk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oddly enough, this isn't a particularly new idea. The Xbox Linux project considered the possibility of using a specially-designed USB device to run code on the Xbox, though I don't think they managed to find a suitable vunerability to exploit (unlike now). I wonder if this works for the Xbox, actually - it's Windows 2000 based IIRC...