A memory corruption vulnerability in the open-source libcue library can let attackers execute arbitrary code on GNOME Linux systems.
  • Panda@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I only recently switched to Linux / POP!_OS so I’m still getting used to the file types, but what are .cue files generally used for? I don’t think I’ve downloaded .cue files before.

    • randomname01@feddit.nlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Metadata for lossless music is the main use I’ve seen. It’s not that uncommon to download a lossless album and to just get one huge FLAC file and one cue file to distinguish which parts are which songs.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Disk images are the most common stuff I’ve seen them used with. In those cases it’s .bin and .cue files