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Updated VLC Fixes Security Problems

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 19, 2007

“Users of VideoLAN’s VLC cross-platform media player are
strongly advised to upgrade to the just-released version 0.8.6c,
which fixes ‘a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora
and SAP plugins.’

“In a security advisory about this issue–originally reported by
David Thiel of iSEC Partners–VideoLAN explained that ‘Ogg/Vorbis,
Ogg/Theora, CDDA (CD Digital Audio) and SAP (Service Announce
Protocol) plugins are prone to a C-style format string
vulnerability when trying to parse a media data stream…'”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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