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CVE-2022-38863

Published: Sep 15, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-787
NVD MITRE
5.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 75.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via function mp_getbits() of libmpdemux/mpeg_hdr.c which affects mencoder and mplayer. This affects mecoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:NUI:RS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected Products

n/an/a
mencodermplayerhq
On-prem
Consumer Software / media-player
mplayermplayerhq
On-prem
Consumer Software / media-player
debian linuxdebian
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
mplayerhqoss-projectConsumer Softwareaka mplayer, mencoder, mplayerhq
debianoss-projectGBOperating Systemsaka debian gnu/linux
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
and 3 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2405
trac.mplayerhq.hu
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00042.html
lists.debian.org
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/mplayer.git/commit/b5e745b4bfab2835103a060094fae3c6cc1ba17d
git.ffmpeg.org
and 3 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Sep 15, 2022
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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