Update Info

openSUSE-2023-365


Security update for vlc


Type: security
Severity: moderate
Issued: 2023-11-12
Description:
This update for vlc fixes the following issues:

Update to version 3.0.20:

+ Video Output:
  - Fix green line in fullscreen in D3D11 video output
  - Fix crash with some AMD drivers old versions
  - Fix events propagation issue when double-clicking with mouse wheel
+ Decoders:
  - Fix crash when AV1 hardware decoder fails
+ Interface:
  - Fix annoying disappearance of the Windows fullscreen controller
+ Demuxers:
  - Fix potential security issue (OOB Write) on MMS:// by checking user size bounds

Update to version 3.0.19:

+ Core: 
  - Fix next-frame freezing in most scenarios
+ Demux: 
  - Support RIFF INFO tags for Wav files
  - Fix AVI files with flipped RAW video planes
  - Fix duration on short and small Ogg/Opus files
  - Fix some HLS/TS streams with ID3 prefix
  - Fix some HLS playlist refresh drift
  - Fix for GoPro MAX spatial metadata
  - Improve FFmpeg-muxed MP4 chapters handling
  - Improve playback for QNap-produced AVI files
  - Improve playback of some old RealVideo files
  - Fix duration probing on some MP4 with missing information
+ Decoders:
  - Multiple fixes on AAC handling
  - Activate hardware decoding of AV1 on Windows (DxVA)
  - Improve AV1 HDR support with software decoding
  - Fix some AV1 GBRP streams, AV1 super-resolution streams and monochrome ones
  - Fix black screen on poorly edited MP4 files on Android Mediacodec
  - Fix rawvid video in NV12
  - Fix several issues on Windows hardware decoding (including "too large resolution in DxVA")
  - Improve crunchyroll-produced SSA rendering
+ Video Output:
  - Super Resolution scaling with nVidia and Intel GPUs
  - Fix for an issue when cropping on Direct3D9
  - Multiple fixes for hardware decoding on D3D11 and OpenGL interop
  - Fix an issue when playing -90°rotated video
  - Fix subtitles rendering blur on recent macOS
+ Input:
  - Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts
+ Contribs:
  - Update of fluidlite, fixing some MIDI rendering on Windows
  - Update of zlib to 1.2.13 (CVE-2022-37434)
  - Update of FFmpeg, vpx (CVE-2023-5217), ebml, dav1d, libass
+ Misc:
  - Improve muxing timestamps in a few formats (reset to 0)
  - Fix some rendering issues on Linux with the fullscreen controller
  - Fix GOOM visualization
  - Fixes for Youtube playback
  - Fix some MPRIS inconsistencies that broke some OS widgets on Linux
  - Implement MPRIS TrackList signals
  - Fix opening files in read-only mode
  - Fix password search using the Kwallet backend
  - Fix some crashes on macOS when switching application
  - Fix 5.1/7.1 output on macOS and tvOS
  - Fix several crashes and bugs in the macOS preferences panel
  - Improvements on the threading of the MMDevice audio output on Windows
  - Fix a potential security issue on the uninstaller DLLs
  - Fix memory leaks when using the media_list_player libVLC APIs
+ Translations:
  - Update of most translations
  - New translations to Esperanto, Interlingue, Lao, Macedonian, Burmese, Odia, Samoan and Swahili


              

References


Packages


  • vlc-3.0.20-bp154.2.6.1