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VLC Player Vulnerability

Posted by Martin in Music and Video, Security, software  TAGS in Music and Video, Security, software

19

Mar

Torrentfreak are reporting that two vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC Player which allow execution of arbitrary code. The second vulnerability has already been fixed in the newest version of VLC which is available for download on the developers homepage. The first vulnerability however can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when loading subtitles [...]


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How many video players do we need ?

Posted by Martin in Music and Video, software  TAGS in Music and Video, software

23

Jan

My initial answer was one - of course - but then I realized that it is not that easy to answer. One video player is enough to play most videos on my computer, I use SMPlayer for this purpose. But what about all those video portals from tv companies or other companies that rent or distribute videos online ? It is beginning to get a little messy now.


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