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Old 11-25-2004, 03:07 AM   #1
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Playlists could be WinAmp hack
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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.
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Old 11-25-2004, 03:15 AM   #2
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I don't use winamp anyway, but that really does not sound good....
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Old 11-25-2004, 03:25 AM   #3
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Wow, sounds scary! Even though I havn't got a clue as to what that means!
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Old 11-25-2004, 03:31 AM   #4
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Variol, it means that playlists can be specially made to cause WinAmp to do basically anything.
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Old 11-25-2004, 05:30 AM   #5
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My WinAmp is v2.75. I think.. So this does not concern me. I think...
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Old 11-25-2004, 05:31 AM   #6
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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.
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Old 11-25-2004, 05:34 AM   #7
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fine then Mr Cook we will all use windows media player then...
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Old 11-25-2004, 06:15 AM   #8
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fine then Mr Cook we will all use windows media player then...
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".
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Old 11-25-2004, 07:38 AM   #9
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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!
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Old 11-25-2004, 11:49 AM   #10
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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
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