VLC got its ‘biggest security release ever’

VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice” – among them OOB, integer overflow, double-free and use-after-free issues – he notes not all are ‘harmless’ so encourages users to update. No major new user-facing features arrive with this update to the open-source player, notable improvements are present. VLC 3.0.24 supports ATRAC3 & ATRAC9 decoding (the former used by Sony MiniDiscs the later for […]
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