There are at least 14 newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel USB subsystem. The vulnerabilities were found by the Google syzkaller kernel fuzzer. According to the researchers, all of them can be triggered with a crafted malicious USB device in case an attacker has physical access to the machine.
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You have probably heard about the WannaCry/WannaCrypt/WannaWhatever worm spreading ransomware, because of the sensation created by parties profiting from the scare tactics. But also because it is using really good spreading technique - exploiting MS17-010 SMB vulnerability leaked from the NSA. Some post-mortem analysis of the first version (with the killswich) and TheShadowBrokers blog are listed below. Crypto is working, so no trivial decrypter is probable, except if the keys are published.
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