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by katastic 3070 days ago
Addendum:

Anyone remember GStreamer being a Linux vulnerability because it had a 6502 CPU emulator to run... NES music files, and hackers managed to jump outside of the VM.

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/11/0day-exploit...

It makes me wonder how easy it is to break out of a particular anti-virus vendor's VM, in a vulnerability that wouldn't exist if you weren't even running AV (outside Defender) at all.