[vlc] VLC 0.8.6g source release

TwoTailedFox twotailedfox at gmail.com
Sun May 18 15:02:55 CEST 2008


When will a Win32 Binary of 0.8.6g be available?

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <
rdenis at simphalempin.com> wrote:

>        Dear VideoLAN users,
>
> The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of
> VLC media player 0.8.6g.
>
> This is a maintainance release addressing security and stability issues; no
> new features were added. See the news below.
>
> This release includes important security fixes, see also:
> http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0804.html
> http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0805.html
>
> N.B.: This is a source code release. Updated binary installers for Windows
> and
> MacOSX will be made available within the coming days.
>
> Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
> ----------------------------------
>
> Security updates:
>  * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX (CVE-2007-6683)
>  * Removed loading plugins from the current directory (CVE-2008-2147)
>  * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
>  * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
>  * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420,
>                                    CVE-2008-1423)
>
> Various bugfixes:
>  * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
>  * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
>  * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
>  * Fixed AAC resampling
>  * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
>   if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net/
>
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