flac players may be vulnerable to trojan horse attack [Archive]

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Perderabo

Nov 23, 2007, 09:33 PM

Cert has issued an advisory regarding the flac library. This affects many programs including FLAC, fubar2000, AOL, and Yahoo. Apparently the latest WinAmp is safe.

Vulnerability Note VU#544656 libFLAC contains multiple vulnerabilities (http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656)

Multiple Vulnerabilities In .FLAC File Format and Various Media Applications (http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html)

FPSHOT

Nov 23, 2007, 11:03 PM

I read some reports saying this is a false alarm.

But..thanks for posting ...it's useful knowledge also since yesterday I got a Trojan virus in with downloading a song from LimeWire which was picked up by my NOD32 though, so it may have been something like this.