Winamp update fixes flaw

Less than a month after releasing a security update to Winamp, Nullsoft has delivered a new version of the media player to plug serious bugs. Winamp 5.2, issued Thursday, tackles a vulnerability in the software's handling of m3u playlist files, according to a developer posting on an online forum from Nullsoft, a division of America Online.

An attacker could put together a specially crafted m3u playlist to cause the computer to crash when the user pauses or stops play, according to an advisory from Secunia. It may also allow an intruder to execute code. The "highly critical" flaw affects the most recent versions of Winamp, versions 5.12 and 5.13, the security company said.

[yrrahxob]

I just updated

and the media library interface has totally changed making it a lot less user friendly. It's good that they fixed the bug but couldn't they have left the rest of it alone?

[make_or_break]

Winamp?

That llama fodder is still relevant? Especially since the reasonably full-featured iTunes is FREE? To get the same sort of usability one has to go with the $20 Winamp Pro version, and yet it won't (be allowed to) do DRMed AAC despite claims of iPod interoperability. A billion downloads is awfully hard to dismiss and not get along with. And considering that Apple's players don't support aacPlus/HE-AAC/whatever-its-called, who really cares? Certainly not the WMA crowd.

Sorry, AOL doesn't DESERVE the dinero. And Winamp a LONG time ago stopped deserving our attention, especially in this iPod-dominated world. Perhaps this app is good if one uses a DAP from a smaller company, assuming of course that it'll be compatible. But for an iPod? As if an iPod user will forego the inherent goodness of the complete iPod/iTunes/iTMS package.

Just goes to show what happens when you have to depend on half-bakes like Creative and Sony for a viable iPod alternative. And when you're owned by a kludge like AOL.

[muxone]

ipod fanboy

i predict the day will come when ipods are no longer hip.... people wakeup and realize that apple's success is due to their marketing, not their products....apple is bought by another AOL-type...and then fades away...

[alegr]

AOL, Go Netscape way!

AOL, sue Apple for giving away a free replacement of your paid Winamp. Like they did to MS. Will anybody feel sympathy to them then? Netscape was crap, but it brought them quite a big settlement from MS.

[gubbord]

Winamp is a great media player and keeps Apple adware off your computer

Winamp has good built in internet radio with XM and Shoutcast, it plays back video files better than any alternative and the skins are some of the best work I've seen and unlike Apple's junk it doesn't insist on worming its way into my system or forcing me to install it in every single download as Apple does bundling Itunes with a forced Quicktime upgrade and with my new HP laptop and with any number of software until I uninstalled it and got Quicktime Alternative

I have no interest in buying into Steve Jobs' monopoly which is just as bad as Microsoft but comes with the addition of brainwashed zombie Apple cultists like the guy above who will take any chance to promote Apple and bash any other product that's in its way.

Here's a tip fanboy, people like you do almost as much alienate users from Apple products as Steve Jobs himself, no go back to Scientology or the Moonies.

[make_or_break]

You'd be a great comic

If it weren't so abundantly clear that you ACTUALLY BELIEVE the pathetic drivel that you post.

Stick to your AOL-infested world. So you buy into and pray to a corporate megalithic THUD like Time Warner INSTEAD of a perennial thorn-in-the-side like Apple...yeah, whoa...what a difference THAT makes.

[Earl Benser]

You do a great job of ....

.... imitating a psycho with overdone paranoia. What else can you
do?