CVE-2022-4743

HIGH

Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer < 2.26.0 - Memory Leak

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Description

A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack. The vulnerability affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above. SDL-1.x are not affected.

References (7)

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b

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[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00024.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 12.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (2)

libsdl/simple_directmedia_layer < 2.26.0

redhat/enterprise_linux

Timeline

Published Jan 12, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026