{"id":63,"date":"2019-07-22T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2021-02-28T23:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T04:34:33","slug":"vlc-media-player-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"VLC Media Player Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A German security company has identified a High risk vulnerability in the popular VLC media player that can result in code execution using a specially crafted media file.   There is no current patch but VLC has a fix they are preparing to publish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can i avoid problems like this in the future?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep software updated.  Enable auto-update if it is offered.  Get your media from a trusted source (ie NOT torrent sites!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/german-cybersecurity-agency-identifies-critical-flaw-in-vlc-media-player\">https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/german-cybersecurity-agency-identifies-critical-flaw-in-vlc-media-player<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German security company has identified a High risk vulnerability in the popular VLC media player that can result in code execution using a specially crafted media file. There is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}