Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU soundcards vulnerable to jack retasking?

2016-11-28 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:19:16AM +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * ban...@openmailbox.org (ban...@openmailbox.org) wrote: > > Recent security research shows that soundcards support surreptitiously > > switching line-out jacks into line-in by modifying the software stack. The > > way modern

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU soundcards vulnerable to jack retasking?

2016-11-28 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Fr, 2016-11-25 at 21:25 +0100, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Recent security research shows that soundcards support surreptitiously > switching line-out jacks into line-in by modifying the software stack. > The way modern speakers and headphones are designed makes them readily > usable as m

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU soundcards vulnerable to jack retasking?

2016-11-28 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* ban...@openmailbox.org (ban...@openmailbox.org) wrote: > Recent security research shows that soundcards support surreptitiously > switching line-out jacks into line-in by modifying the software stack. The > way modern speakers and headphones are designed makes them readily usable as > microphones

[Qemu-devel] QEMU soundcards vulnerable to jack retasking?

2016-11-25 Thread bancfc
Recent security research shows that soundcards support surreptitiously switching line-out jacks into line-in by modifying the software stack. The way modern speakers and headphones are designed makes them readily usable as microphones. The Intel High Definition (HD) Audio standards which all mo