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January 15, 2016 12:00 am

Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered In FFmpeg Lets Attackers Steal Files Remotely

prisoninmate writes: A zero-day vulnerability in the FFmpeg open-source multimedia framework, which is currently used in numerous Linux kernel-based operating systems and software applications, also for the Mac OS X and Windows platforms, has been discovered recently by Russian programmer Maxim Andreev in the current stable builds of the software, and it would appear that it lets anyone who has the necessary skills to hack a computer to read local files on a remote machine and send them over the network using a specially crafted video file. Arch Linux devs already rebuild their FFmpeg packages without the AppleHTTP and HLS demuxers.

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