WinAmp Finally Fixes Some Of Its Bugs

[GhostShip]

Nowdays folks expect exploits and bugs to be resolved in days if not hours so its with some suprise the folks behind WinAmp have finally gotten round to fixing some serious flaws that are at least twelve years old 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/13/winamp_update/

An update to Winamp closes a terrible trio of critical security holes in the popular media player application.

The rather old-school vulnerabilities involve a brace of integer overflow cockups in the in_avi.dll plug-in and a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the in_mod.dll plug-in library. All three flaws create a means to inject hostile code into systems running vulnerable versions of the software, which is developed by Nullsoft, a division of AOL Music. Exploits would involve tricking victims into attempting to play malformed media files.

Go here to get the newest version and keep yourself safe 

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=332010

Alls well that ends well eh folks 

[White Stripes]

winamp... like the now completely defunct sonique... doesnt have the original authors around (frankel and team are gone) to keep it maintained.... ...tbh im surprised VLC hasnt completely overshadowed winamp...