🛡️ CVE-2022-38856 on Debian — mplayer

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-38856 as tracked by Debian, for the package mplayer. The fix is available in version 2:1.5+svn38408-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, 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.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38856 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mplayer (fixed in 2:1.5+svn38408-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 September 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-38856 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-09-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mplayer — 2:1.5+svn38408-1

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