1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5895-1

USN-5895-1: MPlayer vulnerabilities

Publication date

27 February 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in MPlayer.

Releases

Packages

  • mplayer - movie player for Unix-like systems

Details

It was discovered that MPlayer could be made to divide by zero when
processing certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause MPlayer to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-38850, CVE-2022-38860, CVE-2022-38865)

It was discovered that MPlayer could be made to read out of bounds when
processing certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause MPlayer to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-38851)

It was discovered that MPlayer could be made to write out of bounds when
processing certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into
opening...

It was discovered that MPlayer could be made to divide by zero when
processing certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause MPlayer to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-38850, CVE-2022-38860, CVE-2022-38865)

It was discovered that MPlayer could be made to read out of bounds when
processing certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause MPlayer to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-38851)

It was discovered that MPlayer could be made to write out of bounds when
processing certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause MPlayer to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-38855, CVE-2022-38858,
CVE-2022-38863, CVE-2022-38864, CVE-2022-38866)

It was discovered that MPlayer did not properly managed memory when
processing certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause MPlayer to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-38861)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic mencoder –  2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu1.1
mplayer –  2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu1.1
22.04 jammy mencoder –  2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu0.1
mplayer –  2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal mencoder –  2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
mplayer –  2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic mencoder –  2:1.3.0-7ubuntu0.2
mplayer –  2:1.3.0-7ubuntu0.2
16.04 xenial mencoder –  2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1  
mplayer –  2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1  

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