[videolan-announce] VLC media player 0.8.6d release, VideoLAN Security Advisory 0703

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Dear VideoLAN users,

The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of
VLC media player 0.8.6d.

This version is aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the Active X
plugin and the the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) library which affect
VLC media player 0.8.6c and lower. For more technical details see our
advisory: http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html.

We would like to thank Core Security Technologies for reporting the
Active X vulnerability and working with us to help protect our endusers
security.

Improvements in this release include better Video Output compatibility
on Mac OS X and Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Please
note that Mac OS X 10.3.9 is no longer supported.

The full list of changes can be found on our tracking site:
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/tags/0.8.6d/NEWS.

We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version and as
always to only download from the main VideoLAN website.

Several sites (neowin.net, gratisdrivers.net, xiabar.com,
chatzworld.com, multihunter.com, tweakers.net, computerbase.de) have
linked to or still offer (filehippo.com, majorgeeks.com, kaldata.com)
early and broken development versions from before the official release
was made available.

We kindly ask all downloading sites to stop mirroring, remove the broken
files and to update any download links to the appropriate mirror links
in our download section. Thank you!

Enjoy this release,

The VideoLAN Team