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VLC: Vulnerability Not Found

posted by martyb on Thursday July 25 2019, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the pics-or-it-didn't-happen dept.

takyon writes:

Alleged critical VLC flaw is nothing to worry about -- and is nothing to do with VLC

There has been a degree of confusion over the last few days after news spread of a supposed vulnerability in the media player VLC. Despite being labelled by security experts as "critical", VLC's developers, VideoLAN, denied there was a problem at all.

And they were right. While there is a vulnerability, it was in a third-party library, not VLC itself. On top of this, it is nowhere near as severe as first suggested. Oh -- and it was fixed over a year ago. An older version of Ubuntu Linux was to blame for the confusion.

The problem actually exists in a third-party library called libebml, and the issue was addressed some time ago. The upshot is that if you have updated VLC within the last year, there is no risk whatsoever. VLC's developers are understandably upset at the suggestion that their software was insecure.

Also at Tom's Hardware, Boing Boing, and The Register.

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday July 25 2019, @06:34PM (1 child)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 25 2019, @06:34PM (#871184) Journal

    Oh I have a solution to that one, kill all of us.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday July 25 2019, @06:44PM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Thursday July 25 2019, @06:44PM (#871189)

    Well Bot is being lazy and thinks were doing ourselves in just fine without the Robopocolypse.
    He simply won't listen to the advice of Bender, AMII, HAL, ARTI, Colossus or Guardian.
    Lazy assed Bot....
    I fear he's having an affair with the Amazon Bot.....

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