CVE-2022-4743
Published: 12 January 2023
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | Unlikely to be exploitable by an attacker, so just a regular bug with no security impact. Setting priority to low. |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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libsdl2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Needed
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| focal |
Needed
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| jammy |
Needed
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| kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
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| lunar |
Not vulnerable
(2.26.0+dfsg-1)
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| mantic |
Not vulnerable
(2.26.0+dfsg-1)
|
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| trusty |
Needed
|
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| upstream |
Released
(2.26.0+dfsg-1)
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| xenial |
Needed
|
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Patches: upstream: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b |
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Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 7.5 |
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |