Tag Archives: VLC Player

Cicada: Chinese hackers abuse the VLC player for espionage via DLL side-loading, among other things

Posted on 2022-04-07 by guenni

[German]Security researchers from Symantec have tracked down a malware campaign (Cicada) that has been running for years. A Chinese state-affiliated hacker group is abusing legitimate applications such as VLC Player to inject malware into systems via DLL side-loading. The goal … Continue reading →

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VLC 3.0.14 released

Posted on 2021-05-11 by guenni

[German]The developers of the VLC Player have just released version 3.0.14 for Linux, macOS and Windows. After the somewhat "delayed" version 3.0.14, this is only a minimal maintenance update, which should fix bugs. Advertising

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VLC Player 3.0.12 and 3.0.12.1 for Mac M1

Posted on 2021-01-20 by guenni

[German]The developers of the VLC Player have released version 3.0.12 for Linux, macOS and Windows. It is only a maintenance update, which should fix bugs and security gaps. For Macs with M2 chip, however, there is the version 3.0.12.1 of … Continue reading →

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No vulnerability CVE-2019-13615 in VLC player?

Posted on 2019-07-24 by guenni

Uncertainty about the reported remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2019-13615 in the VLC player. It's supposed to be a patch in the works, but the VideoLAN project states that the reported vulnerability cannot be reproduced. I added the topic to the … Continue reading →

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Critical vulnerability in VLC player up to V3.0.7.1

Posted on 2019-07-20 by guenni

[German]In all current versions of the VLC Player up to V3.0.7.1, there is a critical vulnerability that allows a Denial of Service attack. The German BSI has issued a warning. Update: This was a false flag – there was no … Continue reading →

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VLC Media Player 3.0.7.1: Green flickering bug fix update

Posted on 2019-06-12 by guenni

[German]The developers of VideoLan released the VLC Player version 3.0.7.1 for Linux, macOS and Windows last night. It is a maintenance update which fixes the bug that during mpeg video playing a green flickering is displayed. Advertising

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VLC Media Player 3.0.7 released

Posted on 2019-06-08 by guenni

[German]The developers of VideoLan released the VLC Player version 3.0.7 for Linux, macOS and Windows a few days ago (June 6, 2019). This version closes some vulnerabilities of the previous versions. Advertising

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