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Hole in widely-used FFmpeg codec could crash media servers or enable RCE | CSO Online (www.csoonline.com)

submitted 1 month ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Good thing I already crashed mine! /s

[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, did the researcher patch it? Or just throw shade at a hobbyist project?

[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I dunno if "hobbyist" is the right characterization for FFmpeg. This issue is fixed, though.

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Don't see it on here, but anther article I read said it requires ASLR to be disabled to be exploited. So unless you're messing with those values manually, I don't imagine many people are at major risk here. Unless that other article was wrong lol. Can't figure out where I read that so I don't have a source, sorry!