Uninstall VLC Player Right NoW.

PC GAMER

The vulnerability, described in CVE-2019-13615, reads:
“A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit a vulnerability in VLC to execute arbitrary code, create a denial of service state, disclose information, or manipulate files.” While it may sound a bit technical to you but if you’ll pay attention, it clearly states that your PC and all the information in it can be manipulated and used without your consent. A very severe critical vulnerability has been disclosed by the German security agency CERT-Bund that can be used by notorious hackers for remote code execution or cause a DDoS.

The scariest part is that the VideoLAN (Team that makes and manages VLC) is been aware of the critical flaw and is currently working on a patch, However, according to them the patch is nearly 50-60% complete and will take some more time. That means there isn’t a complete patch or solution for your Windows, Unix, Linux systems. macOS is safe till now.

Currently, there are no incident reported of any exploitation but till VLC rolls out a complete patch all you can do is uninstall your favourite media player and hang on to some other alternatives.