[MPlayer-cygwin] Distributable binaries for windows

[Joey Parrish]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:56:05PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:00:42PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:59:35PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:47:47AM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > > > http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
> > > > Mencoder included, newest package from Jan 2005.
> > > 
> > > Avoid this, it has known security holes.
> > 
> > Not known to me.  You had better back that statement up.
> > What security holes?
> 
> Well, if it really is from Jan 2005 it will still contain the ones that
> pre7 fixed (see news entry from 2005.04.16).
> But to tell the truth, a lot of those "normal" fixes we are doing all the time
> might be security fixes one way or another...

How might one remotely exploit my machine when I run mencoder?  That's
the bottom line as far as I'm concerned.  I mean, if we're going to tell
people "don't use this" ...

--Joey

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