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CVE-2011-2587 is a highly critical security vulnerability identified in VLC Media Player. Discovered by security researcher Hossein Lotfi and rated as highly critical by Secunia, this flaw resides in VLC's RealMedia demuxer. It can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow when a user opens a specially crafted RealMedia (RM) file, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability is part of a pair of similar issues in VLC, with the other being CVE-2011-2588 in the AVI demuxer. Users of VLC Media Player should apply updates to mitigate the risk.
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    Windows 7 Highly Critical Vulnerabilities Identified in VLC Media Player

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