KingFish
31 Aug 2004, 3:04am
America Online's Nullsoft division has released a patch to fix a vulnerability in the popular skinning feature in its WinAmp media player.
Just days after security researchers warned a zero-day exploit was circulating in the wild, Nullsoft released WinAmp 5.05 to modify the way the skin installer mechanism works. According to the Nullsoft advisory, WinAmp will now prompt all users with a confirmation window before installing any skins and will only extract files considered low risk before loading a WinAmp skin.
Source: Internet News (http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3401151)
Just days after security researchers warned a zero-day exploit was circulating in the wild, Nullsoft released WinAmp 5.05 to modify the way the skin installer mechanism works. According to the Nullsoft advisory, WinAmp will now prompt all users with a confirmation window before installing any skins and will only extract files considered low risk before loading a WinAmp skin.
Source: Internet News (http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3401151)