Bug#517462: vlc creates infinite playlist from Quicktime "Multiple URLs" file

Christophe Mutricy xtophe at chewa.net
Mon Mar 2 22:35:31 UTC 2009


Le Fri 27 Feb 09 à 16:56 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit :
> It looks like vlc is recursively loading this file, and each load adds
> another 5 entries to the playlist.  This goes on until you kill vlc.
> This strikes me as a potential risk for a remotely-triggered denial of
> service attack.

I can reproduce and will forward it upstream once i fix the upstream's
Trac.


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Xtophe





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