The flaws was discovered by British hacker Stephen Tomkinson who presented the vulnerability onNCC Blog.

The malicious disc can execute arbitrary codes automatically and also bypass the auto-run prevention mechanism in Windows.

To show his vulnerability, Tomkinson used the popular Cyberlinks PowerDVD software.

Vulnerability in Blu-Ray Players can allow hackers to infiltrate into network

Tomkinson says that Cyberlinks PowerDVD supports Blu-ray since 2009 but has hardly updated security mechanisms since then.

As such, an execute function is available and it could be used to run a command.

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source: www.techworm.net