Update 12.37 BST: VideoLAN pointed ZDNet towards a Twitter feed in response, saying that "there is no security issue in [the] last version of VLC," and instead, a mistake from MITRE and CERT_BUND is ...

News broke today that the VLC Media Player—immensely popular and Lifehacker-recommended—allegedly has a pretty severe bug that could allow allow a “booby-trapped” video, as The Register put it, to ...