CVE-2019-14906

CRITICAL

Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer < 1.2.15 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

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