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...Unfortunately, it isn't clear. Suggested rewording for the News item : "VLC media player versions 0.8.6i and older suffer from multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Refer to our advisory for technical details. Fixes for these issues will be available in VLC 0.9. We strongly recommend all...

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Duplicate (found after drafting mine) post at
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=49803

Okay, so the videolan.org home page says "Fixes for these issues are available in VLC 0.9. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version." Well, that's great and all, but the very same web page, the download page, the wiki page, etc etc still list (as of Sept 9 2008) 0.8.6i...