
In order to take advantage of these security flaws, an attacker must create a specially designed video file and trick the victim into running it with this program. In both cases, these failures can cause the player to crash while we are using it, or the ability to execute remote code on the system.

The two types of security flaws that we will find are, on the one hand, buffer overflow, and on the other hand, elimination of invalid references. This new version of the VLC player focuses, above all, on correcting a series of vulnerabilities reported by the NSFOCUS security team.
