With a buffer overflow. Video players are supposedly pretty vulnerable to these kinds of attacks since they need to deal with many different types of media, whi

With a buffer overflow. Video players are supposedly pretty vulnerable to these kinds of attacks since they need to deal with many different types of media, which means there is quite a large attack surface and they have to accept all kinds of odd video files. There's a book called "A Bug Hunters Diary" that explained this exact thing in a video played using a particular version of VLC. Quite far over my head how he did it but it was interesting to read. see http://www.trapkit.de/books/bhd/en.html#videos http://www.trapkit.de/books/bhd/en.html#videos (Chapter 2 — Back to the 90s) Demonstration Videos of the exploit at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyLkglLX-c&fmt=22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyLkglLX-c&fmt=22 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZbX9zfnTuI&fmt=22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZbX9zfnTuI&fmt=22