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VLC media player 1.0.5
2010-02-12 21:36:38| PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
Not only can cool utility VLC handle just about every type of media file, it can even serve outbound streams.
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VLC Media Player Portable 0.9.6
2008-11-10 19:39:55| Latest updates from VNUNET.COM
Lee Collins, vnunet.com, Monday 10 November 2008 at 00:00:00 Free portable media player This is the software publisher's description. VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG,...
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VLC Media Player 0.9.2
2008-09-15 18:57:02| Latest updates from VNUNET.COM
Chris Wiles, vnunet.com, Monday 15 September 2008 at 00:00:00 Versatile and free media player This is the software publisher's description. VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG,...
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Critical vulnerability found in VLC Media Player
2008-07-03 17:21:57| InfoWorld: Top News
Security company Secunia has found a flaw in the VLC Media Player that could allow an attacker to gain control of someone's PC.The problem, which Secunia ranks as "highly critical," affects version 0.8.6h on Windows. Secunia said in an advisory that version 0.8.6i should be released soon.The flaw is an integer overflow error, which can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow, a type of problem in how the program allocates memory. Secunia said it can be exploited by creating a specially-crafted ".WAV" sound file, which would the allow a hacker to run other code on the PC.VLC Media Player is a free, open-source program released under the GNU General Public License by the VideoLAN project . The player can handle video files in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG formats, among others.The project also develops a streaming media server for several platforms. The VLC software has been download close to 90 million times, according to the project's Web site.Secunia notified the VideoLAN project on June 30 and advised that until the update is released, users should be wary of untrusted ".WAV" files.
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Malicious subtitle file could trip up VLC media player
2008-03-18 14:15:58| InfoWorld: Top News
A flaw in the widely used open-source VLC media player could allow an attacker to execute harmful code on a PC.The problem stems from a buffer overflow that can occur when the player processes subtitle files used for movies, according to a security advisory .The vulnerability existed before VLC was upgraded to version 0.8.6e in late February, but the bug appears to have escaped the last round of patches, wrote Luigi Auriemma in a note ."The funny thing is that my old proof-of-concept was built just to test this specific buffer overflow, and in fact it works on the new VLC version too without modifications," Auriemma wrote.Video files can contain a link to a separate subtitle file, which VLC automatically loads when it plays the video. An attacker could use the buffer overflow flaw in VLC to execute malicious code contained in a subtitle file, and thus tamper with a PC. The flaw affects VLC players running on Windows, Mac, BSD and possibly more operating systems, Auriemma wrote.The VLC media player is part of the VideoLAN project. The player is free, and it is released under the GNU General Public License. VLC can also be used as a streaming media server for a variety of platforms.