alt Hacker NewsVLC and ffmpeg share the same underlying library family (libav*) where this vulnerability lives.
> I doubt it'd be worth one's time to write exploits for desktop Linux
How many developers, network administrators, etc. run desktop Linux? Gaining access to those can be very, very valuable.
FFmpeg based players have been popular for 20 years now. Has there been a single documented actual use of their libraries as the exploitation vector anytime in the last two decades?