CVE-2022-38851

Publication date 15 September 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via function read_meta_record() of mplayer/libmpdemux/asfheader.c. This affects mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mplayer	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu1.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:1.3.0-7ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5895-1
MPlayer vulnerabilities
27 February 2023