Security flaw reported in VLC Player

Security flaw reported in VLC Player

VLC media player is one of the most popular media player applications in the market today.

The open source application is reported to have a security flaw which can be used by hackers to execute harmful code on a PC.

Market sources say that the flaw is based on a buffer overflow that can occur when the player processes subtitle files used for movies.

Security expert Luigi Auriemma spoke about his findings: “The funny thing is that my old proof-of-concept was built just to test this specific buffer overflow, and in fact it works on the new VLC version too without modifications.”

He added that the problem affects the application on several operating systems including Windows, Mac, BSD and possibly more.

Checkout: VLC Media Player | Luigi Auriemma