{"id":16469,"date":"2011-04-12T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=16469"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:01:56","slug":"vlc-updated-with-growl-and-security-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/vlc-updated-with-growl-and-security-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC updated with Growl and security fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VideoLAN have announced the latest release of <strong>VLC Media Player<\/strong> on both <a href=\"http:\/\/vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>Mac<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Windows<\/strong><\/a>. Version 1.1.9 &#8220;The Luggage&#8221; mainly addresses security holes but the Mac version features more than a dozen interface fixes and now includes Growl notification software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16472\" title=\"vlc for mac 1.1.9\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/04\/screen-capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/04\/screen-capture.jpg 597w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/04\/screen-capture-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/>The security fix concerns a buffer overflow vulnerability with MP4\/MPEG-4 files which could have been exploited by hackers. It also fixes the Libmodplug library to close a vulnerability when opening S3M files. A full list of fixes and improvements can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/git.videolan.org\/?p=vlc\/vlc-1.1.git;a=tag;h=e9ef5e296fe4c18f1c059d85598624473d91c5a2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download the latest version of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com\/\">VLC for Windows<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Mac<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VideoLAN have announced the latest release of VLC Media Player on both Mac and Windows. Version 1.1.9 &#8220;The Luggage&#8221; mainly addresses security holes but the Mac version features more than a dozen interface fixes and now includes Growl notification software. The security fix concerns a buffer overflow vulnerability with MP4\/MPEG-4 files which could have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/vlc-updated-with-growl-and-security-fixes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VLC updated with Growl and security fixes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-16469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334321,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469\/revisions\/334321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16469"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=16469"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=16469"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=16469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}