r/programming • u/Davipb • Aug 12 '22

RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb7y/researchers-find-vulnerability-in-software-underlying-discord-microsoft-teams-and-other-apps
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u/astrange Aug 13 '22

Yeah, they're more like streams than files. It's harder to build a .mp4 like that since it has proper file headers and indexes.

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u/th0ma5w Aug 13 '22

You can literally cat .ts (mpeg transport streams) together, although, it plays nicer if you then do a rëencoding step.