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Critical vulnerability found in WinAMP

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On August 27, 2004, 11:20 AM

A vulnerability has been reported in Winamp, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The problem is caused due to insufficient restrictions on Winamp skin zip files (.wsz). This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website using a specially crafted Winamp skin to place and execute arbitrary programs. With Internet Explorer this can be done without user interaction.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Winamp 5.04 using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Microsoft Windows XP SP1.

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  1. August 27, 2004 6:26 PM
    Tutuca said:
    Oh no!! Winamp no, please!!
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