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Except users can act accordingly to work around the vulnerability.

For one, it lets people understand where ffmpeg is at so they can treat it more carefully (e.g. run it in a sandbox).

Ffmpeg is also open source. After public disclosure, distros can choose to turn off said codec downstream to not expose this attack vector. There are a lot of things users can do to protect themselves but they need to be aware of the problem first.





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