Do you know that VLC is the most popular media player around the World. VLC is the free open source media play that is used and installed in every computer systems. Recently a very serious security flaw found in VLC, so you might be uninstall it until the security bug cannot be patched by the VideoLAN project.
The bug is critical it vulnerability score given is 9.8 that is critical bug that may affect. Found by German security agency CERT-Bund (via WinFuture), a new flaw in VLC (listed as CVE-2019-13615).
This vulnerability is critical and allows RCE (remote code execution) this affects and discloses files on the host system. Which conceivably enables terrible actors assailants to modify, install, or run software without permission? VLC’s security flaws could allow hackers to access you computers and your files.
Till there is no news that this security bug affects on anyone but the WinFuture reports that Linux, windows and Unix versions affected with this security flaws and macOS version are safe.
Thankful that VideoLan know this bug and they are working on it, and soon they patch the bug and that patch is 60 percent completed, sadly till now if you uninstall VLC then you have to switch on alternative media players.
This is up to you on uninstalling you VLC this article is just for information for you.
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