Joop Boonen wrote:

On shmoocon ( http://www.shmoocon.org/schedule ) they showed a POC of an USB exploit on Ubuntu Linux.

Information: http://www.shmoocon.org/speakers#usbautorun Video: http://www.shmoocon.org/2011/videos/Larimer-USB_AutoRun.m4v

This is caused by a exploit in via the dvi format (probably this one: http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=d4139205b010ed06310d14284e6311... ) and the automount option of Nautilus. I see that Nautilus in openSuSE (11.3) is standard configured to automount.

I don't know if this considered an issue.

Updates that fix the mentioned evince vulnerabilities are already released. As defensive measurement against future attacks of that kind it would be nice indeed if gnome wouldn't automatically open new removable media though. Esp if the screen is locked. Nautilus actually even has an option to tun the behavior off. IIRC KDE4 doesn't immediately open new volumes in the file manager either but rather prompts what to do. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org