Number: AV19-176
Date: 21 August 2019
On 19 August 2019 VideoLAN released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting its VLC media player. One of these vulnerabilities could be exploited by a remote actor to execute arbitrary code with the privilege levels of the user.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the VideoLAN security bulletin and apply the necessary updates:
https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc308.html
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