VLC Player Not Safe!
Written by IT News on 8:12 PM
By: Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor
Among all media players, which are available on the market, VLC, as we know, is one of the best for two reasons. First, it comes with a variety of video codecs, thus, is an ideal tool for opening any file format, and secondly, it is free. Some philosopher of antiquity
days said the wine should have three characteristics: it must come in large numbers, it must be good, and it should be free. Analogy needs will not be written.
In the "ideal" player status, but the shortcomings due to the commitments were found in its latest version. In the vulnerability can be used in remote parties and leave the computer VLC open to arbitrary code works, according to Secunia in Luigi Auriemma.
Getting to the nitty-gritty, the problem occurs whenever subtitle file is loaded into the player, this action causes a buffer overflow is small, easy to use, designed persons. Not comfortably behind your Mac or Linux screen, is used for most of the problems faced by the Windows operating system, this vulnerability is platform independent, so be careful!
Responsibility was first reported in version 0.8.6d, and developers took it to a patch immediately. Or at least that was the plan; a version 0.8.6e was to be error-free, but in fact, although it was obviously the work done. Two corrections became first format string error in the web interface listens on port 8080/tcp been resolved, and "ParseMicroDvd ()" error border has been removed, but there are two more similar to the left, and they rated highly critical by Secunia. Borders errors in the "ParseSSA ()" and "ParseVplayer ()" function when processing subtitles can be used to cause stack based buffer.
The decision, Luigi Auriemma said, is that all the changes in 0.8.6e and no subtitles unreliable process using VLC player.
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