Are there any vulnerability in ogg files?

[gaspah]

Hi there,
My friend recently did a virus scan of his system and he claims that some of the files I left on his machine were infected and so he deleted them. The files were ogg format. Now I'm aware that ogg has support for more type/number of streams than avi. Is there any way these files can infect my system either directly or by calling another program, ie subtitler? Unfortunately I wasn't able to inspect the files as he deleted them so I don't even 100% know that this even happened, but it had me concerned as this is the only likely way my (non-internet) system at home would get infected.
Also if it is possible to infect my system will a simple direct stream copy to avi fix it?

:stupid:

[celtic_druid]

Sounds like you are actually talking about ogm's. I guess if there was some kind of vulnerability in your splitter someone could do something to an ogm file to exploit it.

[gaspah]

oh yeah ogm.. oopsie.. silly mistake..
so the software i used to run the file would need to be infected itself in order for the file to have any effect? or would perfectly healthy software contain the vulnerability?

oh gosh ur gonna think im a real dumbass.. but what exactly does the splitter do? split the individual streams from the file to play them?

[int10h]

Or maybe the anti-virus software is sick...

I bet it would be a little stange to infect a splitter to infect a PC with a media file.

[gaspah]

oh ok then. so i have nothing really to worry about. thanks for the help.