From 1a3fcc73d1c7a0b72680266374534f777853c3d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Uoti Urpala Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:45:51 +0200 Subject: 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. --- DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3