Security News VLC Media Player and MPlayer contain critical vulnerability bugs

[Solarquest]

Content source

https://www.techradar.com/news/vlc-media-player-and-mplayer-contain-critical-vulnerability-bugs

If you use the popular media players VLC or MPlayer, then you’ll want to make sure you have the most recent updates installed as soon as possible, as security researchers have identified a critical vulnerability that puts your PC at risk.
Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, the security research company, has found that there is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the LIVE555 media streaming library, which is used by VLC, MPlayer and other popular media players.
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Get updating
If you have media playing software that uses the LIVE555 media streaming library, such as VLC, then you’ll want to make sure you update to the latest version, as an update has been released that addresses the issue.

The speed in which a fix has been found and released shows how worrying this vulnerability is, and how it put PCs in risk of a cyber attack from malicious users.
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[Cortex]

Latest on VLC site is 3.0.4 which is the version I've got installed

 

[Mariihh]

I use PotPlayer, in my opinion better than these two

 

[shmu26]

What other players use this component?

 

[Local Host]

Surprised people still use VLC, been using MPC since Windows XP.

Currently MPC-BE (fork), the only MPC project being maintained, there's a fork for MPC-HC but is only getting filter updates.

 

[brambedkar59]

What other players use this component?

SMPlayer uses Mplayer.

Update: SMPlayer 18.10 released, not sure if it includes the fix.

Version 18.10

• The internal code for YouTube now supports resolutions up to 4K.

 

[CyberTech]

Thanks for the heads up, just updated VLC and MPC-CH dont have updated yet :/

 

[shmu26]

Currently MPC-BE

+1

 

[LDogg]

Good job I don't use this any more and shows why updating your software all the time is crucial.

~LDogg