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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."

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  1. Just another reason by bunburyist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    To use XMMS! XMMS is a wonderful media player XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. XMMS is mainly targeted at music playback, but through thirdparty plugins some rudimentary video capabilities exists, but there are much better systems other than XMMS for video support. XMMS will not be vulnerable to this exploit...it is Highly customizeable and it has an extensive plugin system. Winamp is (currently) being run by AOL which as we all know is evil and heartless...after what they did to poor rich justin. poor poor justin.

    1. Re:Just another reason by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 0, Redundant

      XMMS has been included in SuSElinux since at leats 8.2. It's great, it has the interface of winamp with none of the bloat that I've come to hate from winamp. Check it out

      I didn't think this was redundent at all good thing I browse at -1.

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      500 dollar reward for tip(s) leading to the arrest of the person(s) who stole my sig.
  2. Crazy by ddod · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just one more reason why I have ceased to used internet explorer for jsut about anything. Firefox all the way!!

    It's no hoax. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods rock

  3. Re:Just use windows media player. by name773 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    isn't that blasphemy or something?

  4. Summary of article summary by MobyDisk · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yet another unwanted, unnecessary feature involving Internet Explorer embedded into a program that doesn't need it has a remote exploit. To mitigate this problem, disable active anything, automatic anything, and ActiveX anything. That is all.