[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fwd: [MPlayer-users] Mplayer exploit?!

Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle at yahoo.fr
Tue Jan 14 20:19:04 CET 2003


I would add : remember that the mplayerhq URL is wrong....

> Btw, few words about why is it fake:
> - riaa (imho) has no the right to develop virii/worms
> - most of these players are distributed in source form, compiled with
>   various compilers and options, hard to make exploit which work
> everywhere.
> - also (at least for mplayer) many versions are in use, imho
> impossible to
>   make exploit to work with all (most) of them
> - it's (imho) impossible to make perfect exploit, and even if it
> fails only
>   1% of cases, it's easy to notice and we'd already heard about it
> then
> - infecting all p2p clients? how?
> 
> ps: riaa.org was hacked few days ago, their homepage was replaced by
> fake
> news page... so i doubt they have so good security experts there :)
> 
> A'rpi


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