CVE-2019-14906
CRITICALLibsdl Simple Directmedia Layer < 1.2.15 - Out-of-Bounds Write
Title source: ruleDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14906
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0107
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-125
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (2)
libsdl/simple_directmedia_layer
< 1.2.15
redhat/enterprise_linux
7.0
Published
Jan 07, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026