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Plex has notified some of its users on Thursday to urgently update their media servers due to a recently patched security vulnerability.

The company has yet to assign a CVE-ID to track the flaw and didn't provide additional details regarding the patch, only saying that it impacts Plex Media Server versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x.

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[–] madiator2011@px.madiator.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm on Jellyfin as they banned Hetzner.

[–] madiator2011@px.madiator.com 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Should clarify Plex banned using Hetzner :)

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

https://torrentfreak.com/plex-will-block-media-servers-at-prevalent-hosting-company-230915/

There's the story but there's not much tea.

I'm guessing there were just enough complaints and Hetzner refused to take anything down.

Really bizarre to license people self-hosting software and then refuse them from hosting it in certain places over what content they choose to put up.

I wonder if they'll just roll through all the VPS now.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i'm ootl; how was plex able to ban them? isn't hetzner just a vps provider? (not questioning you; just curious)

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Plex blocked Hetzner IPs, so servers hosted there can't reach plex.tv to auth users or validate plex pass.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

That's what you get for using anything that doesn't work fully offline. Seriously people still defending Plex and not seeing that it will bite them back sooner or later are delusional.

Given that hardware doesn't die, my Jellyfin will probably work until the heat death of the universe.

[–] madiator2011@px.madiator.com 2 points 1 day ago

Basically it's possible by checkin IP of the server.