Sony MediaMax Patch Opens Vulnerabilities

By Geoff Duncan Published July 25, 2014

In the immortal words of Tommy Shaw: “Haven’t we been here before?”

Following reports of Windows security problems with SunComm‘s MediaMax software shipped on some 50 music CD titles, Sony BMG Tuesday announced a security patch designed to shore up loopholes in the copy protection scheme. But guess what? Security analysis reveals the patch is vulnerable to similar loopholes, and now essentially everyone is recommending users avoid the patch.

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The original security vulnerability with MediaMax was uncovered by iSec Partners, following a request from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to examine the MediaMax software. Once the flaw was discovered, the EFF and iSec held off on announcing anything until a patch could be released; now, security researchers report the patch itself suffers from the same security vulnerability, and

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