Sony BMG admits to new CD bug


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December 08, 2005

Sony BMG admits to new CD bug

Sony BMG has admitted to a new security problem affecting nearly six million of its CDs, after the detection of vulnerability with the MediaMax patch it supplied on 6 December.

According to watchdog group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) the most recent CD software 'could allow malicious third parties to gain control over a consumer's computer running the Windows operating system'.

The EFF hired security firm Information Security Partners to analyse MediaMax. The company found a new vulnerability with the software that could allow unauthorised users to take full control of the computer's operations.

Sony BMG issued a patch but this was also flawed and could actually cause the security problem it was supposed to block.

Sony BMG stated that it is working on the problem and will release a modified patch if necessary. The problem only applies to CDs issued in the US and Canada.

The EFF cited research by J Alex Halderman, a student at Princeton University, who claimed that MediaMax sends information about users over the internet without their permission.

Halderman also claimed that MediaMax installs itself even if the user clicks a button that is supposed to stop the installation.

Source: Vnunet.com

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