andrew,
@andrew@radiation.party avatar

It’s feasible and has been used in various 0day exploits in the last few years. It’s getting significantly rarer nowadays but media player exploits leading to RCE has been a staple of malware distribution for a long while.

It’s just much easier to make a malicious word macro and hope the user isn’t careful than to research/identify an exploitable bug in a media player.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #