Wait Before Uninstalling VLC from Your Computer
by David Murphy from Lifehacker on (#4KSE7)

News broke today that the VLC Media Player-immensely popular and Lifehacker-recommended-allegedly has a pretty severe bug that could allow allow a "booby-trapped" video, as The Register put it, to either crash the player or execute remote code. The former? An annoyance. The latter? A huge security issue, one that'd we"