WinAmp music to hackers' ears (read this)
A "highly critical" hole in one of the most-used pieces of software in the world means that audio files will be music to hackers' ears.
The ubiquitous WinAmp program - used to play a huge range of media files - can provide someone with system access simply by getting someone to visit a malicious website . It all has to do with how the software loads Fasttracker 2 ".xm " media files.
http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...fm?NewsID=1343
Deatils about the hole here : http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/winampheap.txt