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| author | Uoti Urpala <uau@glyph.nonexistent.invalid> | 2011-01-24 16:45:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Uoti Urpala <uau@glyph.nonexistent.invalid> | 2011-01-24 16:45:51 +0200 |
| commit | 1a3fcc73d1c7a0b72680266374534f777853c3d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 64b75f815b19c0f1fd3842dd2bc6969fb768b5ef /DOCS/man | |
| parent | 75c394df8fc472c12e63c7677087517380313f0f (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'DOCS/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 index b3ed31b0e7..cc5f912053 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 +++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 @@ -1077,6 +1077,15 @@ Expand TEXT only if the property NAME is not available. 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. |