CVE-2019-14906

Critical

Description

A flaw was found with the RHSA-2019:3950 erratum, where it did not fix the CVE-2019-13616 SDL vulnerability. This issue only affects Red Hat SDL packages, SDL versions through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow flaw while copying an existing surface into a new optimized one, due to a lack of validation while loading a BMP image, is possible. An application that uses SDL to parse untrusted input files may be vulnerable to this flaw, which could allow an attacker to make the application crash or execute code.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLibsdl Simple Directmedia Layer
PublishedJan 7, 2020
First seenJan 7, 2020

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
libsdl simple_directmedia_layerv ≤ 1.2.15, 2.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.0.9—
redhat enterprise_linux7.0—

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