To: brianl703
Good thing that I never run xmms as root or with superuser privs, as the best that it could accomplish is wipe out any files that I own (none of which are system critical). Of course, this would be assuming that your OS or your MP3 playback software is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.
339 posted on
06/18/2003 4:09:33 PM PDT by
Dimensio
(Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
To: Dimensio
Believe me it was quite interesting to see that an mp3 player COULD be vulnerable to a buffer overflow from an mp3 file. I think Symantec Anti-Virus actually scans for sick mp3 files..
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