The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 22.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5895-1 advisory.

  - The MPlayer Project mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1 is vulnerable to Divide By Zero via the function config ()     of llibmpcodecs/vf_scale.c. (CVE-2022-38850)

  - Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via function read_meta_record()     of mplayer/libmpdemux/asfheader.c. This affects mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1.
    (CVE-2022-38851)

  - Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via function gen_sh_video () of     mplayer/libmpdemux/demux_mov.c. This affects mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1.
    (CVE-2022-38855)

  - 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.
    (CVE-2022-38858)

  - Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Divide By Zero via function demux_open_avi() of     libmpdemux/demux_avi.c which affects mencoder. This affects mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder     SVN-r38374-13.0.1. (CVE-2022-38860)

  - The MPlayer Project mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 is vulnerable to memory corruption via function     free_mp_image() of libmpcodecs/mp_image.c. (CVE-2022-38861)

  - Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via function mp_getbits() of     libmpdemux/mpeg_hdr.c which affects mencoder and mplayer. This affects mecoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and     mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1. (CVE-2022-38863)

  - 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.
    (CVE-2022-38864)

  - 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. (CVE-2022-38865)

  - Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via read_avi_header() of     libmpdemux/aviheader.c . This affects mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 and mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1.
    (CVE-2022-38866)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : MPlayer vulnerabilities (USN-5895-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 171940

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Oct 16, 2023, 9:38 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310162138
Version 1.1 Sep 1, 2023, 4:18 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202309011618
Version 1.1 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Plugin metadata Detection Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.0 Feb 28, 2023, 7:53 AM New Plugin Feed: 202302280753