What is CVE-2022-38864?

CVE-2022-38864 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mplayerhq Mencoder, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-09-15.

How severe is CVE-2022-38864?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Mplayerhq Mencoder

CVE-2022-38864

Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via the function mp_unescape03() of libmpdemux/mpeg_hdr.c. This affects mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.003 (26.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Mplayerhq Mencoder — versions svn-r38374-13.0.1
Mplayerhq Mplayer — versions svn-r38374-13.0.1
Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-38864?: CVE-2022-38864 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mplayerhq Mencoder, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-09-15.
How severe is CVE-2022-38864?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.