VLC Player Updated

VideoLAN project has released a new version of their VLC media player. The new version contains a fix to a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-13428). By exploiting the vulnerability a remote user could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitratry code execution with the privileges of the target user.

Affected are VLC Player versions prior 3.0.11. Owners of those versions should update to the latest version.

More information about the vulnerability here

VLC Player Updated

VideoLAN project has released a new version of their VLC media player. The new version contains a fix to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability. By exploiting the vulnerability it is possible to cause a denial-of-service condition denying service to legitimate users.

Affected are VLC Player versions prior 3.0.7.1. Owners of those versions should update to the latest version.