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March 19th, 2008, 04:57 PM
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VLC Vulnerability
VLC Player Vulnerable to Remote Hijack - TorrentFreak
This caught my eye because it's my favorite, low-impact play-anything media player.
The problem occurs when a someone loads a subtitle file, which causes a buffer overflow that can be exploited. The security flaw is platform independent, which means it affects Windows, Mac and Linux users.
Initially it was reported that the flaws in version 0.8.6d were fixed in the latest release, but this turns out not to be the case. Auriemma writes: “The old buffer-overflow in the subtitles handled by VLC has not been fully patched in version 0.8.6e.”
- via gHacks
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