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Feast day October 15

B BadUSB CVE-2014-4115
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Saint BadUSB

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
October 15 2014
CVE
CVE-2014-4115

fastfat.sys (aka the FASTFAT driver) in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP2, and Server 2008 SP2 does not properly allocate memory, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (reserved-memory write) by connecting a crafted USB device, aka "Microsoft Windows Disk Partition Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Sources: blackhat.com · eclypsium.com

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