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TCH-Thomas
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Rating: Highly critical

Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in VLC Media Player, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error within the ActiveX plugin of VLC Media Player can be exploited to overwrite certain memory zones and execute arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a malicious website.

Note: This affects the Windows versions only.

2) Some vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version of the FLAC library, which contains multiple integer overflows.

Solution:
Update to version 0.8.6d.
videolan.org/vlc/
TCH-Bruce
Thanks Thomas
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