{
  "id": 6874614,
  "title": "VLC flaws enable memory corruption and data leakage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/vlc-flaws-enable-memory-corruption-and-data-leakage",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-12T06:00:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Arabian Post",
    "slug": "arabian-post",
    "url": "https://thearabianpost.com/vlc-flaws-enable-memory-corruption-and-data-leakage/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Two newly discovered vulnerabilities in VLC media player versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.23 can lead to memory corruption and data leakage. The more severe of the two, CVE-2026-56711, is an integer-overflow flaw in the picture-allocation logic, which can cause heap out-of-bounds writes. This vulnerability has a high severity rating of 8.6 (v4) and 8.8 (v3.1) and can be triggered by opening a specially crafted PNG image or connecting to an attacker-controlled RealRTSP server. The second vulnerability, CVE-2026-73324, affects VLC's RealRTSP handling and allows attackers to disclose portions of heap memory. Both vulnerabilities require user interaction and no privileges, with the first vulnerability having a higher impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}