By carefully crafting a corrupt media file, an attacker can trigger a heap buffer overflow which may result in arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of media files. Credit to Karl Lynn of eEye Digital Security (eeye.com) for reporting this issue.
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