CVE-2022-38850 Denial of service in n/a
A divide-by-zero error in MPlayer's mencoder allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted media files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-38850?
CVE-2022-38850 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 15 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The MPlayer Project mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1 is vulnerable to Divide By Zero via the function config () of llibmpcodecs/vf_scale.c.
Weakness: CWE-369
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38850?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mplayerhq Mencoder.
How do I fix CVE-2022-38850?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2022-38850 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38850 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38850, GHSA-947v-w24j-9ph3, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38850.