Release of VLC Media player 3.0.19: fix Security vulnerabilities and improve AV1 support

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens, soft media users 1520111, Coje_He for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com October 10 news, VideoLAN recently updated the cross-platform multimedia player VLC Media Player, the latest version is 3.0.19. The official website has not yet released the update, but interested users can directly access the server to download.

VLC Media Player 3.0.19 is the first update of the media player in nearly a year, fixing many BUG feedback in previous versions, optimizing background stability, and introducing many new features / features.

In terms of security, VLC Media Player 3.0.19 fixes two vulnerabilities with tracking numbers CVE-2022-37434 and CVE-2023-5217.

CTOnews.com Note: CVE-2022-37434 is a heap-based buffer overread or overflow vulnerability in zlib. CVE-2023-5217 is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability encoded by vp8 in vpx.

VLC Media Player developers also solved the "potential security issue" of the uninstall program DLL in this release.

In terms of functionality, Windows version VLC Media Player 3.0.19 improves support for AV1 HDR, and improves support for AV1 GBRP, Super Resolution Stream (super-resolution streams) and monochromatic Stream (monochrome streams).

Other improvements include support for RIFF INFO tags in Wav files, improved SMB compatibility with Win11 devices, and MMDevice audio output threads.

Full update log address: click here | download address: click here.