MPlayer: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202405-05

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, the worst of which can lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected packages

Background

MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mplayer-1.5"
 

References

• CVE-2022-38600
• CVE-2022-38850
• CVE-2022-38851
• CVE-2022-38853
• CVE-2022-38855
• CVE-2022-38856
• CVE-2022-38858
• CVE-2022-38860
• CVE-2022-38861
• CVE-2022-38862
• CVE-2022-38863
• CVE-2022-38864
• CVE-2022-38865
• CVE-2022-38866

Release date
May 04, 2024

Latest revision
May 04, 2024: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local

Bugzilla entries

• 870406