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Ubuntu 22.10 USN-5895-1 Critical: MPlayer Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey February 27, 2023
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As of February 27, 2023, Ubuntu LTS variants encountered vulnerabilities in MPlayer. Users should promptly apply updates.
Several security issues were fixed in MPlayer.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MPlayer.

Software Description:

- 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 a specially crafted media file, an attacker could possibly use

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu MPlayer

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
   mencoder                        2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu1.1
   mplayer                         2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   mencoder                        2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu0.1
   mplayer                         2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   mencoder                        2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
   mplayer                         2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1build0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   mencoder                        2:1.3.0-7ubuntu0.2
   mplayer                         2:1.3.0-7ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   mencoder                        2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1
   mplayer                         2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1.1+esm1

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5895-1

  CVE-2022-38850, CVE-2022-38851, CVE-2022-38855, CVE-2022-38858,

  CVE-2022-38860, CVE-2022-38861, CVE-2022-38863, CVE-2022-38864,

  CVE-2022-38865, CVE-2022-38866

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February 27, 2023

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu MPlayer

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu1.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/2:1.4+ds1-3ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/2:1.3.0-8+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/2:1.3.0-7ubuntu0.2

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