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                                    CERT-Renater

                         Note d'Information No. 2011/VULN257
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DATE                      : 25/03/2011

HARDWARE PLATFORM(S)      : /

OPERATING SYSTEM(S)       : Systems running VLC versions 1.x prior to 1.1.8.

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http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.8.html
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What's new in 1.1.8

Two months after VLC 1.1.8, and after more than 50 million downloads of
VLC 1.1.7, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.8.

Introducing small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues,
here is VLC 1.1.8.

     * Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers
     * Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger
     * Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali'
     * Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers
     * Major updates in most language translations
     * Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins

     * Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X
     * Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed
     * Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys
     * Codecs updates
     * Many miscellaneous fixes


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