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CVE-2022-38863

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Mplayerhq Mencoder: svn-r38374-13.0.1
• Mplayerhq Mplayer: svn-r38374-13.0.1

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00042.html
• https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2405
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00042.html
• https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2405

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