VideoLAN Claims Security Teams Warnings Are Outdated By 2 Years
VideoLAN stated in their website on 22 March 2010 that ISS and SecurityForce are spreading outdated security issue which was fixed 2 years ago.
“So-called “Security” teams are spreading wrong information about an “unpatched” security issue in VLC.
ISS and SecurityFocus are presenting a security issue in versions of VLC, that are, in fact, more than 2 years old. This issue has been fixed since a long time and since 20 versions of VLC.”
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The latest version of VLC Media Player is VLC 1.0.5, and it is not affected.
VideoLAN is a project, run by volunteers, backed-up by a non-profit organization, which produces free and open source software for multimedia, released under the GNU General Public License.
VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris and Sharp Zaurus.
According to VideoLAN, VLC media player has over 404 million downloads since version 0.7.2. The latest version VLC 1.0.5 alone has over 28 million downloads.
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