About the “Security Issue” on VLC

Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by jbk on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:47AM (#20513853)

> So none of the tech news websites contacted VideoLAN and published their articles without checking their source.

Actually, one did: numerama. That's all.

> I feel bad for VideoLAN, according to them the bug was in a 3rd party lib and was fixed 16 months ago.

My night and morning have been difficult, as you can imagine...

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by JosephRedfern on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:58AM (#20513908)

I'm sorry that you're having a bad couple of days thanks to shitty journalism.

Thank you for your efforts in developing VLC, it is a great tool.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by bane on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:32AM (#20522559)

I don't know if it matters at all, but after hearing the news, I still fired up VLC to watch a few videos because I feel you guys have built up enough credibility and credit that such an extraordinary claim would require extraordinary evidence (which I wasn't seeing) and if there was a problem, your team would fix it ASAP.

Please keep up the awesome work, VLC is a treasure.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by BasicObject on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:10PM (#20519145)

I wanted to thank you for your work on VLC as well. It has been my go to video player for many years.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by wademealing on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:30AM (#20514499)

I wrote to NIST/NVD tis morning about the CVSS score (12+ hours ago now) they haven't got back to me.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by madez on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @11:42AM (#20516338)

Thank you for your contributions on VLC.

It shines bad light on the official institutions that they haven't checked back with you.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by meowface on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:37PM (#20521874)

We all love VLC and know the hard work you put into it, and into keeping it secure. Don't stress too much. The media buzz will die down soon.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by chachachoney on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:21PM (#20518701)

Off topic, but...

I've used VLC on all supported platforms for almost as long as it's been in existence: THANK YOU.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by simonebrunozzi on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:58PM (#20517813)

It will sound boring quickly, but I also want to thank you for developing VLC. Great work. Amazing work. You have many devoted fans all around the world.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by random42 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:35AM (#20523939)

Thank you for VLC. It has literally been the only software that I've ever donated towards.

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Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC by thr0w__4w4y on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:46PM (#20539872)

Yep, me too -- thanks so much for the great VLC player, keep up the great work!

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