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Security flaw in Winamp


By Jason Meserve, NetworkWorld.com, 04/11/04

NGSSoftware is reporting a flaw in the way the popular Nullsoft Winamp loads certain metafiles could be exploited by an attacker to overwrite heap memory. By exploiting the flaw, the attacker could run arbitrary code on the affected machine. A fix is available in Winamp 5.0, which can be downloaded here.

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