10 Apr
2022
10 Apr
'22
8:16 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 6:02 PM Stuart Blake Tener wrote:
Use case 1
I recently came into some USB flash drives that I wish to change the vendor id and
product id on (they have bogus vendor id and product id numbers making them un-writable).
Use case 2
I would also like to be able to examine the firmware from a USB stick (several years ago
I was scammed on a USB stick I purchased that had a bogus capacity and had to argue with
PayPal to get my money back). So it is surely not an unreasonable thing to wish to check a
USB stick's firmware for that or other security purposes (passive injection of code to
impact BIOS or the OS).
Can this utility perform any of the aforementioned enumerated activities when used in a
Linux environment? If not, any idea what would do so?
Dear Stuart,
No, dfu-util can only work with devices that conform to the USB DFU
standard. Typically USB sticks have no facility for reading out or
modifying their firmware over USB.
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Tormod