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A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

Posted Feb 20, 2013 23:59 UTC (Wed) by andrel (subscriber, #5166)
In reply to: A story of three kernel vulnerabilities by bfields
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Supposedly Stuxnet was transmitted using a USB key.


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A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

Posted Feb 21, 2013 11:55 UTC (Thu) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289) [Link]

Stuxnet used a vulnerability in the Windows shell (the so-called LNK vulnerability), not in the filesystem code.

As for floppies, viruses spread mostly by running infected executables, not using vulns.

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