![]() Thank you to those users who have supplied further information to me about this issue. I apologize for blowing this out of proportion, and yet I, in all good faith, reported here on what I knew at the time. mkv file (what even are these? has anyone used these in the last 5 years? I kid, I kid. PPS: It seems that the gizmodo article was nothing more than clickbait, or relied on someone with an older version of VLC downloading (and playing in VLC) a malicious. Sorry for the overstatement at first I was reporting based off of what I knew at the time. ![]() PS: Comments have stated this to not be as much of an issue as the two articles say, if caution is used and malicious. CERT-Bund has given this a base vulnerability score of 9.8 out of 10. Additionally, hackers can exploit the issue to cause denial-of-service attacks, which is a common function of certain malware. The security flaw allows for remote code execution (RCE), which gives hackers total access to your computer to install, run, and modify anything on it without your knowledge. HOWEVER, you have to do a lot of stuff in order to make this exploit be anywhere close to an issue for you. TL,DR: VLC has a MAJOR, as-of-yet unpatched security flaw allowing RCE (hackers) onto your PC, Unix or Linux computer. I strongly recommend the K-Lite Codec Pack (Mega Edition, because why not) and the associated Media Player Classic - Home Cinema If you wish, you can read an article which is based on the first one, but is different and newer:
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