VLC Player is a very useful media player, as it can play almost any sort of video codec you can name, and it’s free. But if you like using VLC Player to look at the media files you acquire as you make your way across the video landscape, beware: the latest version of VLC has a big security flaw. The problem occurs when a someone loads a subtitle file, which causes a buffer overflow that can be exploited. The security flaw is platform independent, which means it affects Windows, Mac and Linux users.Initially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
VLC Player is a very useful media player, as it can play almost any sort of video codec you can name, and it’s free. But if you like using VLC Player to look at the media files you acquire as you make your way across the video landscape, beware: the latest version of VLC has a big security flaw. The problem occurs when a someone loads a subtitle file, which causes a buffer overflow that can be exploited. The security flaw is platform independent, which means it affects Windows, Mac and Linux users.Initially Continue reading