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CVE-2022-38866 json

Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via read_avi_header() of libmpdemux/aviheader.c . This affects mplay…

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-41425

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via read_avi_header() of libmpdemux/aviheader.c . This affects mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1.

Patch / fix

  • mplayer Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:1.5+svn38408-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38866

  • mplayer Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2:1.3.0-7ubuntu0.2
  • mplayer Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
  • mplayer Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu0.1
  • mplayer Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38866

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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