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LennonCook

11-25-2004 03:07 AM

Playlists could be WinAmp hack

Quote:

Playlist files for the WinAmp player could contain a new flaw, security firm Secunia said this week. The company advised people to remove the associations in the program for the ".cda" and ".m3u" extensions in order to avoid being bitten by the bug, which it rated as "highly critical"--the company's second highest rating.

The vulnerability is due to a memory problem with a certain function in the program that reads the music lists. The flaw occurs in version 5.05 and 5.06 of the program, the firm stated.

Secunia Advisory

[ 11-25-2004, 03:08 AM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]

Stormymystic

11-25-2004 03:15 AM

I don't use winamp anyway, but that really does not sound good....

Variol (Farseer) Elmwood

11-25-2004 03:25 AM

Wow, sounds scary! Even though I havn't got a clue as to what that means! :D

LennonCook

11-25-2004 03:31 AM

<span style="color: lightblue">Variol, it means that playlists can be specially made to cause WinAmp to do basically anything.

Kakero

11-25-2004 05:30 AM

My WinAmp is v2.75. I think.. So this does not concern me. I think... :rolleyes:

philip

11-25-2004 05:31 AM

Thanks for the warning! I only use winamp when I'm in windows and since I don't use it much I's have missed this.

Azeral

11-25-2004 05:34 AM

fine then Mr Cook we will all use windows media player then...

LennonCook

11-25-2004 06:15 AM

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Originally posted by Azeral:
fine then Mr Cook we will all use windows media player then...

<span style="color: lightblue">You miss the point entirely. This is not a scaremonger - WinAmp has 3 secunia advisories related to it, two of which are fixed. That isn't alot compared to what, say, the web browsers and the operating systems get. This is a warning about a potential risk: not a blatant "do not use this program anymore".

Intrepid

11-25-2004 07:38 AM

i use winamp 2.91 and you can pry it from my cold dead fingers!
It's my favourite media player, and i won't change, no!

RoSs_bg2_rox

11-25-2004 11:49 AM

Another Winamp user here. I suppose it is just really a warning to joining random radio stations, although I suppose it would be quite fun to shove sub7 in there and mess around with some computers :D

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