If you use the VLC Media Player, you should look better for an alternative after a warning from the CERT of the Federal Office for Information Security (CERT-Bund). Because in the VLC gapes again a security gap, which was classified as critical.
Bad News for VLC Media Player Users
High-Risk Assessment
The CERT Confederation has classified the vulnerability as critical and awarded the risk assessment “High” (Level 4). This is the second-highest warning level for security holes in the CERT. Unlike in June, however, no cases have yet become known in which the vulnerability has been actively exploited
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According to the warning, the vulnerability allows remote attackers to unnoticed code execution on the PC their victims. The vulnerability has already been described in CVE-2019-13615: “A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit a vulnerability in VLC to execute arbitrary code, create a denial of service state, disclose information, or manipulate files,” the report said warning message.
So far there is no update from VLC, and it is also not known when a security update will come out. Therefore, one should consider whether one does not dodge to another player at the moment.
