Page 1 of VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time and strem.io security issue

http://hackaday.com/2017/05/25/hacked-by-subtitles/

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CheckPoint researchers published in the company blog a warning about a vulnerability affecting several video players. They found that VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time and strem.io are all vulnerable to attack via malicious subtitle files.

By carefully crafting a subtitles file they claim to have managed to take complete control over any type of device using the affected players when they try to load a video and the respective subtitles.
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