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ChALkeR

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About ChALkeR

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/chalker; my proof: https://keybase.io/chalker/sigs/s4pY6mFQ3GplQr1rC_cYRZ_KFHPkjLrJyOgnVgWsuxQ ]

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    Comment #14613582

    The correct figure is 10%.

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    Comment #10909877

    Done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10909727

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    Comment #10909735

    I tried hard to cover all the possible question. Please, read the post _carefully_ before asking or proposing anything.

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    Comment #10902764

    Note: this actually means that everyone should regenerate all their key-pairs after updating.

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    Comment #10899179

    And no, switching Buffer(number) to be zero-filled will bring more harm now, even from the security point of view. The best course of action imo is to deprecate Buffer(number) what…

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    Comment #10899040

    This note does not have anything actually new, but I have seen several people who are not aware of that.

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    Comment #10898578

    Looks like it bundles libavformat internally.

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    Comment #10898553

    By the way, mplayer is also affected, even after installing a fixed version of ffmpeg.

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    Comment #10897769

    It does not, that's covered in the original article.

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    Comment #10897353

    But that code that you linked to does not verify that the file is mp4, moreover, mp4Sig call is commented out.

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    Comment #10895897

    Tell me if I should not have double-posted it here, I will delete one of those posts then.

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    Comment #10895886

    Re-posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10895872

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    Comment #10895885

    Short English description: ffmpeg vulnerability allows reading local files and sending them over network using a specially crafted video file. This affects not only file conversion…

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    Comment #10895880

    Previosly posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10893301 , but that eneded up in [ask] due to my mistake.

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    Comment #10895719

    https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A... will work better, I suppose.

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    Comment #10895710

    Should I post this again with a link so it ends up in the news or not?

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    Comment #10895475

    Hm. Why did this end up in [ask]? Perhaps I made a mistake when posting this =).

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    Comment #10893418

    It's «PC» as in «server»/«PC», not as in «mac»/«PC».

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    Tell HN: Ffmpeg vulnerability allows attacker to get files from server or PC

    ffmpeg vulnerability allows reading local files and sending them over network using a specially crafted video file. This affects not only file conversion (including thumbnail gener…