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VLC Security Issue?

Discussion in 'General' started by wanara009, Jul 24, 2019.

  1. wanara009

    wanara009 (Soon-to-Be) Monkey God

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    So, I'm just browsing the google discover on my phone when I saw a news about VLC being unsecure and all that jazz.

    Here's the link to that article.

    I did some digging. VLC Twitter claim that the vulnerability is old news and has already been closed months ago. But of course, they would defend their product.

    VLC Reddit has a small thread saying that they couldn't replicate the bug.

    Any thought before I uninstall VLC and sub in PotPlayer?
     
    wanara009, Jul 24, 2019
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  2. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    It's up to you... I mean if they can't replicate it...
     
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  3. Teln

    Teln Pweeease?

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    If they say it's fixed, it's fixed. Between the open-source nature of VLC, and the scads of third-party security analysts out there, the VLC devs have no real room to fib on something as big as this. Just sit tight until the patch lands.
     
    Teln, Jul 24, 2019
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  4. aquinas

    aquinas I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Patch landed 16 months ago, the Ubuntu LTS repo had a canonical patch that subbed in the old version of the lib. Because Canonical.
     
    aquinas, Jul 24, 2019
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