🛡️ CVE-2022-43238 — debian-linux

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-400 NVD
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Description

Libde265 v1.0.8 was discovered to contain an unknown crash via ff_hevc_put_hevc_qpel_h_3_v_3_sse in sse-motion.cc. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted video file.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-43238 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2022-43238 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • libde265

Timeline and source

Published on 2 November 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
lists.debian.org
www.debian.org
github.com
lists.debian.org
www.debian.org

CVE-2022-43238 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-11-02
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
libde265 — —

References

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