352655 – (CVE-2011-0640) sys-fs/udev: user-assisted arbitrary program execution (CVE-2011-0640)

Bug 352655 (CVE-2011-0640) - sys-fs/udev: user-assisted arbitrary program execution (CVE-2011-0640)

Summary: sys-fs/udev: user-assisted arbitrary program execution (CVE-2011-0640)

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	CVE-2011-0640

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-11...
Whiteboard:	none [noglsa]
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Reported:	2011-01-25 07:14 UTC by Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED)
Modified:	2011-02-09 01:10 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-01-25 07:14:57 UTC

The default configuration of udev on Linux does not warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device (HID) functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that the user connected to the computer.

Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-02-03 07:08:56 UTC

RedHat claims it has no security impact: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672513#c6

Should we close this bug?

Comment 2 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-02-09 01:10:43 UTC

I thought it was bullshit from the start. ;)