The old buffer-overflow in the subtitles handled by VLC has not been fully patched in version 0.8.6e, in fact buffer_text2 in ParseSSA is still unchecked: if( sscanf( s, "Dialogue: %[^,],%d:%d:%d.%d,%d:%d:%d.%d,%81920[^\r\n]", buffer_text2, The funny thing is that my old proof-of-concept was built just to test this specific buffer-overflow and in fact it works on the new VLC version too without modifications 8-) Instead the SVN version was and is patched from 10 months as I wrote in my old advisory: http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt --- Luigi Auriemma http://aluigi.org