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VLC Media Player 0.9.8a

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What's new in this version:

Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8:
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Security update:
* Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Bunch of small bugfixes.

Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
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New Localizations:
* Ukranian

Security updates:
* Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
* Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)

Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
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Security updates:
* Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
* Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:
* Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bugfixes:
* Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
* Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:
* Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
* Fix some crashes in DirectShow access

Qt Interface:
* Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
* Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
* Various fixed in playlist

Access:
* MMAP module is now deactivated by default

Translations:
* Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation