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Kodi 17.2 released with important security bug fix
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https://www.neowin.net/news/kodi-172-rel...ty-bug-fix  Kodi 17.2 released with important security bug fix
By Razvan Serea · 2 hours ago 0
Kodi

Kodi media center, formerly known as XBMC Media Center, is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons.

Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: Kodi can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive. Kodi will scan all of your media and create a personalized library complete with boxcovers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

Fixes done in this release:

Fix selection after channelgroup switching in PVR guide window
Fix handling of gaps that caused eradic behaviour in EPG grid
Allow backing out of fullscreen pictures by mapping longpress guesture
Quick fix for wake up command not being called in PVR power management
Use alternative method to check if platform updates have been installed on Windows
Set the minimum version in the code which is currently OSX 10.8
Fix possible security flaw which could abused .zip files which try to traverse to a parent directory
Use the correct ttc font from the video file for subtitles on Windows
Detect and delete zero-byte database files which causes crashes
Security

You may have read in the news that malicious subtitle zip files could potentially infect and harm your media player including Kodi. Check Point researchers uncovered this flaw they contact us up front to less us know about this flaw. Kodi developers fixed this security gap and have added the fix to this v17.2 release. Any previous Kodi version will not get any security patch. Kodi 17.2 will be available on Android Play Store as well as Windows Store and will roll out as soon as possible. Please be patient if you are using these store versions. The official download page of course has the regular install files available for the supported platforms.

Download: Kodi 17.2 | Other Systems | 76.6 MB (Open Source)
View: Kodi Home Page | Kodi for Android : here,s the offical release but it is not on kodi website this version so i got it from this other website version Kodi 17.2 release & for virustotal scan log:  https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v172-minor-...ty-release    Kodi v17.2: A minor bug fix and security release

We're happy to present you this small bugfix release for the v17 “Krypton” range which contains our continuous effort to further improve the v17 range. This release consist of several fixes on top of the v17 and v17.1 release to further improve stability and usablity. Additionally this also inclused a security patch regarding subtitle zip files. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with answering their questions.

Fixes done in this release:

Fix selection after channelgroup switching in PVR guide window
Fix handling of gaps that caused eradic behaviour in EPG grid
Allow backing out of fullscreen pictures by mapping longpress guesture
Quick fix for wake up command not being called in PVR power management
Use alternative method to check if platform updates have been installed on Windows
Set the minimum version in the code which is currently OSX 10.8
Fix possible security flaw which could abused .zip files which try to traverse to a parent directory
Use the correct ttc font from the video file for subtitles on Windows
Detect and delete zero-byte database files which causes crashes
Security

You may have read in the news that malicious subtitle zip files could potentionally infect and harm your media player including Kodi. When Check Point researchers uncovered this flaw they contact us up front to less us know about this flaw. Our developers fixed this secuity gap and have added the fix to this v17.2 release. As such we highly encourage all users to install this latest version! Any previous Kodi version will not get any security patch. We have began the roll out of this version and Android Play Store as well as Windows Store have this update pending and will roll out as soon as possible. Please be patient if you are using these store versions. Our official download page of course has the regular install files available for the supported platforms. :  https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/02f2e.../analysis/  SHA256: 02f2e63d2cb4c8f4a4f25b78c264cc7c6080b5a1d384b09a8efc6f5a5c7f2ed0
File name: kodi-17.2-Krypton.exe
Detection ratio: 1 / 60
Analysis date: 2017-05-23 22:16:09 UTC ( 51 minutes ago ) Bkav HW32.Packed.9174 20170523( false positive by Bkav security company) CopyrightThe trademark is owned by XBMC-Foundation
Product Kodi
File version 17.2.0.0
Description Kodi 17.2.0.0 Setup
Comments This application and its source code are freely distributable.
 Packers identified
F-PROT qp, maxorder, appended, NSIS, UTF-8, Unicode, CAB VirusTotal metadata
First submission 2017-05-23 18:58:46 UTC ( 4 hours, 8 minutes ago )
Last submission 2017-05-23 22:16:09 UTC ( 51 minutes ago )
File names kodi-17.2-Krypton.exe
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