| Name | CVE-2022-38863 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3255-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mplayer (PTS) | stretch | 2:1.3.0-6 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:1.4+ds1-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:1.5+svn38408-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2:1.5+svn38638-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mplayer | source | buster | 2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1 | | DLA-3255-1 | |
| mplayer | source | bullseye | 2:1.4+ds1-1+deb11u1 | | | |
| mplayer | source | (unstable) | 2:1.5+svn38408-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2405
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/mplayer.git/commit/b5e745b4bfab2835103a060094fae3c6cc1ba17d (r38393)
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact