Kodi 17.3 Security Update Patches Infamous Subtitle Hack, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Crash

The second stable point release of the major Kodi 17 "Krypton" open-source and cross-platform media center was launched the other day, on May 24, 2017, but it was missing some binary add-ons, so Martijn Kaijser announced today Kodi 17.3.

While Kodi 17.3 is a minor update adding the missing binary add-ons like PVR, Inputstream and visualisation, as well as addressing a crash that occurred on older operating systems using the GCC 4.8 compiler, such as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), Kodi 17.2 is a major milestone patching a critical security vulnerability.

"You may have read in the news that malicious subtitle zip files could potentially infect and harm your media player including Kodi," said Martijn Kaijser in the release announcement for Kodi 17.2. "Our developers fixed this security gap and had added ... (read more)

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