USN-4131-1: VLC vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices

11 September 2019

vlc vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in VLC.

Software Description

• vlc – multimedia player and streamer

Details

It was discovered that VLC incorrectly handled certain media files. If a
user were tricked into opening a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker
could use this issue to cause VLC to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

vlc – 3.0.8-0ubuntu19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

vlc – 3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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