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During the most recent months, multiple security flaws have been detected in the VLC Media Player, which have been reported in a timely manner to its developers. According to web application security specialists, one of the most prominent reports details critical vulnerabilities that could lead to high-risk scenarios in combination with other attack variants. A […]
The developers of the VLC media player have been involved into a new controversy. Recently, an alleged report by information security audit experts stated that this software had increasing security flaws that exposed users to malicious activities such as remote code execution. The report, revealed in past days, even claimed that, using a video loaded […]
Short Bytes: You might be using a media player daily to watch movies and videos, but few of you would be knowing that you can stream online videos using VLC. You can play online music and videos from like YouTube etc. The steps to network stream the content from these sources are pretty straightforward, and […]
A researcher by the name of Debasish Mandal has found critical command executing vulnerability on the latest versions 2.0.5 and earlier on famous VLC media playing software that can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on computers via ASF files. The developers at VLC organization have published an advisory according to which the vulnerability is located in media player’s […]