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April 8th, 2004, 07:43 PM
#1
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
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April 8th, 2004, 08:23 PM
#2
-hugs his beepmedia player/xmms combo-
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April 8th, 2004, 08:29 PM
#3
-hugs his impenetrably secure car stereo
Don\'t SYN us.... We\'ll SYN you.....
\"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.\" - Thucydides
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April 8th, 2004, 08:32 PM
#4
-hugs his winamp 5.. ohh crap....
/me goes to update winamp (thats what you all should do out there)
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April 8th, 2004, 09:52 PM
#5
<rant>
Crappy newspapers..
I read this in two Dutch newspapers (spits and metro)
Spits told me something like: No proof of any hacker(s) making use of mentioned hole
Metro headlines: Hackers enjoying winamp hole
Just like this article opens with "WinAmp music to hackers' ears", which could with any fantasy still be considered humorous..
I mean this is not even about mixing up hackers and skiddies..
This is just plain sensationalism..
</rant>
Is there a proof of concept anyone can link to ??
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
When in Russia, pet a PETSCII.
Get your ass over to SLAYRadio the best station for C64 Remixes !
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April 8th, 2004, 11:57 PM
#6
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April 9th, 2004, 01:47 AM
#7
yet another case of people just clicking away on any stupid thing any body sends them.
Bukhari:V3B48N826 “The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.’”
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April 9th, 2004, 02:20 AM
#8
speak your mind becuase those who matter don\'t mind and those who mind don\'t matter
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April 9th, 2004, 01:18 PM
#9
Thank god Windows Media Player doesnt have any security flaws like that.</sarcasm>
I gotta go with tedob1 on this one. Some of this stuff you gotta be realy dumb to have exploited against you. Isnt it common sense that if someone you dont know is offering you something that normaly costs for free you should be suspicious?
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April 9th, 2004, 01:22 PM
#10
Originally posted here by Tiger Shark
-hugs his impenetrably secure car stereo
You live near Detroit and think a car stereo is secure?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
And the hell with Winamp. Everyone uses that and I have no clue why. I use XMMS like Pooh, and of course mpg321 and mpg123, and freeamp, and Alsaplayer. =D
EDIT: Just thought of something:
For the people running Windows 9X that like to click on things that they have no clue about, please visit this link:
http://slipsin.cjb.net
Hear that? That's 9X users crashing
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