Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability

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Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability
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Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability

A security researcher discovered that Janet Jackson's music video for 'Rhythm Nation' is capable of crashing the hard drives of older computer models.
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Chen explains:

"It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used.

The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback."

CVE - CVE-2022-38392

cve.mitre.org
 
Radioteacher said:
Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability
www.secureworld.io

Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability

A security researcher discovered that Janet Jackson's music video for 'Rhythm Nation' is capable of crashing the hard drives of older computer models.
www.secureworld.io www.secureworld.io

Chen explains:

"It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used.

The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback."

CVE - CVE-2022-38392

cve.mitre.org
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Radioteacher said:
Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability
www.secureworld.io

Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability

A security researcher discovered that Janet Jackson's music video for 'Rhythm Nation' is capable of crashing the hard drives of older computer models.
www.secureworld.io www.secureworld.io

Chen explains:

"It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used.

The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback."

CVE - CVE-2022-38392

cve.mitre.org
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I just saw a Youtube video on this. It's an amusing and very interesting convergence of conditions to create this effect. I'm surprised that Steve never covered it on SN. Seems right up his alley.

 
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