Libavcodec Bug Threatens Windows XP VLC Users

Watch out Windows XP diehards: if you run the open source media player VLC you may be vulnerable to malicious attacks. A bug discovered in November affecting VLC was recently made public on Full Disclosure, a security-focused mailing list.
The reported bug (dubbed CVE-2014-9597) allows a specially crafted video file with the FLV file extension opened in VLC 2.1.5 to corrupt memory. This could then allow the attacker to execute any code they want on the target machine. The vulnerability was