{"id":547881,"date":"2006-02-01T06:28:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T06:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547881-critical-exploit-hits-winamp.html"},"modified":"2006-02-01T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T06:28:55","slug":"critical-exploit-hits-winamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547881-critical-exploit-hits-winamp.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Critical&#8217; exploit hits Winamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Winamp&#8217;s Web site currently has no news of the bug, or any information about a possible patch.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The site&#8217;s support forums also lack any talk of the bug, with the exception of one user who provided a link to the proof-of-concept code. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to Information Week, Secunia says the bug in Winamp 5.12 is &quot;extremely critical&quot;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">An attacker can take complete control of a PC by getting a user to download a malicious audio playlist that uses a filename larger than about 1 040-bytes. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Because Winamp automatically begins playing a playlist once it is downloaded, hackers could easily attack PCs equipped with the music player. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Winamp music player suffers from a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are already exploiting, and a patch is not available, says Danish-based security company Secunia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}