Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 36147:a657a5332e3a
manpage: document -playlist being unsafe in its option description
This really should have been added to the manpage at the start of the
previous decade. There's still bad advice about -playlist in the XML
docs, but I'll remove that later when purging more obsolete/wrong
stuff from there.
Patch by Uoti Urpala [uau mplayer2 org]
| author | reimar |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 05 May 2013 17:02:35 +0000 |
| parents | 5950fc0d4b53 |
| children | 8079c886ae74 |
| files | DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Sun May 05 17:02:33 2013 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Sun May 05 17:02:35 2013 +0000 @@ -1283,6 +1283,15 @@ Play files according to a playlist file (ASX, Winamp, SMIL, or one-file-per-line format). .br +.I WARNING: +The way MPlayer parses and uses playlist files is not safe against +maliciously constructed files. +Such files may trigger harmful actions. +This has been the case for all MPlayer versions, but unfortunately this +fact was not well documented earlier, and some people have even misguidedly +recommended use of -playlist with untrusted sources. +Do NOT use -playlist with random internet sources or files you don't trust! +.br .I NOTE: This option is considered an entry so options found after it will apply only to the elements of this playlist.