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Winamp still vulnerable

2004; Elsevier BV; Volume: 2004; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1353-4858(04)00173-4

1872-9371

Thomas Borup Kristensen,

Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

The widely popular Winamp media player has been found vulnerable to a buffer overflow. This is after the vendor, Nullsoft, claimed the vulnerability was fixed in the latest release (5.06). Researcher Brett Moore has discovered that the vendor had failed to plug the vulnerability, leaving millions of users open for exploitation.