Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Winamp Skin Exploit in the Wild

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the even-skins-are-dangerous-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Secunia.com has announced an exploit (derived from xml escaping the Internet zone into IE's local zone) that exploits Winamp's habit of automatically installing skins. Currently all versions of Winamp are affected. Details on the Winamp forums - apparently an exploit is already in the wild, and spreading."

2 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. Mozilla by linuxci · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the winamp betas had the option to use the mozilla engine rather than the IE one. Shame they never spent more time on this feature then they could easily tell people they could fix this exploit by turning off the MS Engine.

  2. Re:Fixes... by Thrymm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amen! I use it to play music, I dont look at the damn thing. I know some people love skins, for me I dont need it, just need to hear the music not see the colors!