▲ 188 ▼ Grandma we only use torrents for games, or to transfer things. (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by Grumpus_Maximus to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago no, these things would try to exploit the program that read them. it's not a likely attack vector, you need both a malware file, and the right program trying to read it. it might not also be transferrable across different os. so yes, it needs a media player to attack. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25801 this one f.ex permalink fedilink source parent