Luigi Auriemma, Alin Rad Pop, Rémi Denis-Courmont, Quovodis, Guido
Landi, Felipe Manzano, Anibal Sacco and others discovered multiple
vulnerabilities in vlc, an application for playback and streaming of
audio and video. In the worst case, these weaknesses permit a remote,
unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of the user running vlc.
Read the full story: DSA-1543 vlc – multiple vulnerabilities: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543