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Winamp < 5.58 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5597
Synopsis
The remote host has a media player installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
The remote host is running Winamp, a media player for Windows.Versions of Winamp earlier than 5.58 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :
- A stack-based buffer overflow when loading a malformed whatsnew.txt file.
- A stack-based buffer overflow when parsing VP6 video content.
An attacker, exploiting these flaws, can execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application.