Tag Archives: USB

USB Fuzzing: A USB Perspective

Posted on July 17, 2019 by daveti

Syzkaller [1] starts to support USB fuzzing recently and has already found over 80 bugs within the Linux kernel [2]. Almost every fuzzing expert whom I talked to has started to apply their fuzzing techniques to USB because of the … Continue reading →

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USB gadget functionalities in Android

Posted on July 14, 2017 by daveti

I started working on Android stuffs this summer. While I mainly work on the USB layer within the Linux kernel, I do sometimes need to look into the Android framework, to see if I could achieve my goal from the … Continue reading →

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Making USB Great Again with USBFILTER – a USB layer firewall in the Linux kernel

Posted on August 4, 2016 by daveti

Our paper “Making USB Great Again with USBFILTER” has been accepted by USENIX Security’16. This post provides a summary of usbfilter. For details, please read the damn paper or download the presentation video/slides from USENIX website. I will head to … Continue reading →

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Defending Against Malicious USB Firmware with GoodUSB

Posted on December 3, 2015 by daveti

Finally, 4 months after our paper was accepted by ACSAC’15, I could now write a blog talking about our work – GoodUSB, and release the code, due to some software patent bul*sh*t. (I sincerely think software patent should be abolished … Continue reading →

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USB mass storage on Gumstix – a tricky issue using Yocto Daisy

Posted on July 1, 2014 by daveti

A recent upgrade of Yocto, from Dora to Daisy, broke the things worked before. Actually, CONFIG_USB_MASS_STORAGE, enabled in the defconfig of the Overo, was not passed to the .config during the kernel build. This weird missing config costed me 24-hour … Continue reading →

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