Stack and Heap Overflow Vulnerabilities patched in VLC v2.0.1

VideoLAN organization released update version of VLC player , VLC v2.0.1 to address functionality bugs and some vulnerabilities.

The previous versions of the media player were affected by Heap overflow vulnerability ,present in the RTPS protocol and Stack overflow vulnerability, present in MMS protocol. A Successful exploitation could crash the VLC media player process. Arbitrary code execution could be possible on some systems.

VLC media player 2.0.1 addresses thes issues. Patches for older versions will be available through the git repositories .

Get it from here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/