How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Download and install the MP3 converter on the machine. This converter had a vulnerability in playing M3U files. The software crashed when a large file was opened for conversion with it.
  1. Let's create a file with about 30,000 instances of A written into it and save it as <filename>.m3u:
  1. Drag and drop the file into the player, and we will see that it crashes:
  1. We need to find the exact number of bytes that cause the crash.
  2. Typing so many instances of A manually in a file will take a lot of time, ...

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