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Comment Re:Cover your eyes (Score 4, Informative) 246

That's how most MP4s come into existence. But an MP4 (or a TIFF for that matter) can be put up onto a webpage by an attacker, and rendered by the browser without the user needing to explicitly download and run it. If visiting a maliciously-crafted website can lead to arbitrary code execution, I'd say there's a serious problem. (I haven't investigated the particular flaws closely enough to tell if that is the case. However, based on the advisory, it seems quite likely.)

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