CVE-2022-4743
HIGHLibsdl Simple Directmedia Layer < 2.26.0 - Memory Leak
Title source: ruleDescription
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)
Core 7
Core References
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
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18
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
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-401
Status
published
Products (2)
libsdl/simple_directmedia_layer
2.0.4 - 2.26.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
9.0
Published
Jan 12, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026