Medium severity · published Sep 15, 2022
CVE-2022-38855
Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via function gen_sh_video () of mplayer/libmpdemux/demux_mov.c
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via function gen_sh_video () of mplayer/libmpdemux/demux_mov.c. This affects mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
ME
Mencoder · Mplayerhq
svn-r38374-13.0.1 · source: NVD
MP
Mplayer · Mplayerhq
svn-r38374-13.0.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38855
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38855
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00042.html
Exploit
https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2392
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