With this exploit, a skin file can launch executable programs when used with WinAMP, thus allowing malicious WinAMP skins to be created that can do virtually anything with user's computer. At the moment the solution to the problem is to use some other media player instead of WinAMP. The vulnerability has already been found in the wild.
Source: Secunia
Written by: Petteri Pyyny @ 26 Aug 2004 14:04
