VLC

WebTrickz: VideoLAN has finally released the much awaited 2.0 version of “VLC Media Player”, the best and most popular media player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files including DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. VLC 2.0.0 “Twoflower” is a major release, presented after 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions. It efficiently plays most codecs (MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, WebM, WMV player) without requiring any codec packs. ...

H-Online: Following on from last week’s S3M vulnerability in the VLC media player, a new advisory warns of a buffer overflow when playing MP4/MPEG-4 files.The bug, reported by Aliz Hammond, requires that a user open a specially crafted MP4 file. According to Secunia, the vulnerability is found in the MP4_ReadBox_skcr()function in the demultiplexer and is rated as “highly critical”. All versions from 1.0.0 to 1.1.8 are affected by the problem. ...