Risks of device naming

Posted Aug 17, 2008 20:14 UTC (Sun) by dark (guest, #8483)
In reply to: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer by chsnyder
Parent article: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

I think it's still a security problem. You might have stuck in a USB stick in order to transfer data from it, and forgotten to take it out before rebooting. If that USB stick has a boot-time virus then you lose your system, even though it was never your intent to run any code from it.