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

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

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Version 1.3 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
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 Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.0 Feb 28, 2023, 7:53 AM New Plugin Feed: 202302280753