New critical vulnerability in VLC Media Player

Ruhe at 16h29
31
Jan
2011
New critical vulnerability in VLC Media Player

...the project has reported a new vulnerability which can be exploited using specially crafted MKV (Matroska Video and WebM) films to inject malicious code onto a system and execute that code with the user's privileges...

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