Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU76083

Memory leak in MPlayer - CVE-2022-38600

Published: May 12, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU76083

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38600

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak within vf.c and vf_vo.c files. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.

Affected software

MPlayer
Gentoo Linux
media-video/mplayer

How to mitigate CVE-2022-38600

Install updates from vendor's website.

media-video/mplayer - update to 1.5

External References

https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2390#comment:2

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