Update: VLC Media Player Plagued By Unpatched Critical RCE Flaw

UPDATE After a German security agency reported a critical vulnerability existed in VLC open-source media player that could enable remote code execution and other malicious actions, the developers of VLC said that the media player is not vulnerable. The VLC media player, developed by the VideoLAN...

VLC zlib_decompress_extra Double Free Vulnerability

VLC media player is a free and open-source portable cross-platform media player software developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS, iPadOS, Wizen, Windows 10 Mobile, and Windows Phone. It is also available on digit...

Bing Warns VLC Media Player Site is ‘Suspicious’ in Likely False-Positive Gaff

Microsoft’s Bing search engine warned its users the official VLC media player website was “suspicious” and dissuaded users from visiting the popular destination, suggesting the site contained “malicious software.” The site is no longer listed as unsafe. In a red warning message presented to users...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3899-1] vlc security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3899-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 27, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...