{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_fhzv7pa5ahf73tvragna","title":"VLC makes its ‘biggest security release ever’","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/vlc-makes-its-biggest-security-release-ever-fhzv7pa5ah","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_fhzv7pa5ahf73tvragna","seq":791848,"kind":"article","title":"VLC makes its ‘biggest security release ever’","url":"https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/vlc-major-security-update","summary":"VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice”, e.g., out-of-bounds reads and writes, integer overflow, use-after-free issues, etc. He adds not all are ‘harmless’ and encourages users to update. No major new user-facing features arrive in this update…","published":"2026-09-29T23:15:26Z","seen":"2026-09-30T00:05:39Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-omgubuntu-co-uk-f17fa0","name":"omgubuntu.co.uk","domain":"omgubuntu.co.uk","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q2760938","name":"OMG! Ubuntu!","type":"website","country":"GB","designations":["website"]}},"via":"kite-omgubuntu-co-uk-f17fa0","topics":["linux-oss","news","app updates","vlc"],"authors":["Joey Sneddon"],"entities":[{"id":"Q20455825","name":"Valencia Airport","type":"org"}],"mentions":3,"story":"st_fhzv7pa5ahf73tvragna","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.5400000214576721,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.029999999329447746,"political":0.10000000149011612}]}