UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38851

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38851

    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38851

    Published: 15 Sept 2022Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-38851
    Aliases:
    USN-5895-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38851, https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2393, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5895-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38851

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mplayer

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mplayer@2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1

    Affected versions

    2:1.2-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38851 | CVE-DB