{"id":"CVE-2022-38863","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-38863","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:45:42.754Z","title":"Certain The MPlayer Project products are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via function mp_getbits() of libmpdemux/mpeg_hdr.c which affects mencoder and mplayer.","description":"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.","published":"2022-09-15T15:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T04:57:15.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["mplayerhq/mencoder","mplayerhq/mplayer","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00365,"percentile":0.30138,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00042.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2405","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00042.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2405","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38863","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}