CVE-2022-38865 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service in MPlayer by triggering a divide-by-zero error in the AVI demuxer.
- 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-2022-38865?
CVE-2022-38865 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
Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Divide By Zero via the function demux_avi_read_packet of libmpdemux/demux_avi.c. This affects mplyer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1.
Weakness: CWE-369
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38865?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mplayerhq Mencoder, Mplayerhq Mplayer.
How do I fix CVE-2022-38865?
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-2022-38865 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38865 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38865, GHSA-hc88-g42g-7pc8, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38865.