VideoLAN, the organization behind one of the most popular media players VLC Media Player, released VLC Media Player 3.0.8 today.
VLC Media Player 3.0.8 is a security update that patches a total of 13 different security issues in the client. The update is not related to a recently disclosed vulnerability that a too eager researcher attributed to VLC Media Player. It turned out that VLC was not vulnerable but that the researcher ran an older version of Ubuntu.
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