Omgubuntu iconOmgubuntuSep 29, 2026 ~1 min source read

VLC makes its ‘biggest security release ever’

VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player's 'biggest security release ever' with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are "hard to exploit in practice" but adds that not all of them are 'harmless'.

VLC makes its ‘biggest security release ever’

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VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player's 'biggest security release ever' with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries.

VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are "hard to exploit in practice" but adds that not all of them are 'harmless'.

No major new user-facing features arrive in this update to the open-source media player, but improvements do.

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VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player's 'biggest security release ever' with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are "hard to exploit in practice" but adds that not all of them are 'harmless'. No major new user-facing features arrive in this update to the open-source media player, but improvements do.

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