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WinAMP skin exploit in the wild

26 August 2004 14:04 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny | 4 comments

WinAMP skin exploit in the wild Security site Secunia has issued a warning about a security exploit using WinAMP skins. The problem is within WinAMP's skin zip files' (.wsz files) insufficient restrictions to control what can be launched from skin file's XML "browser" tag.

With this exploit, a skin file can launch executable programs when used with WinAMP, thus allowing malicious WinAMP skins to be created that can do virtually anything with user's computer. At the moment the solution to the problem is to use some other media player instead of WinAMP. The vulnerability has already been found in the wild.

Source: Secunia

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Ghostdog (Senior Member) 27 August 2004 5:12 Send private message to this user   
This doesn´t affect Winamp 2.80, does it?
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LlamaKing (Newbie) 27 August 2004 23:16 Send private message to this user   
This issue is now resolved with the latest release of Winamp.

All users are advised to upgrade to Winamp 5.05 asap!
http://www.winamp.com/player/

Changelog:
http://www.winamp.com/player/version_history.php

More info:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=191604
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=190902
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LlamaKing (Newbie) 27 August 2004 23:17 Send private message to this user   
News Article: Winamp Security Bulletin
http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10605
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Toiletman (Senior Member) 28 August 2004 9:01 Send private message to this user   
It doesn't affect you if you don't use skins right?
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