USN-5274-1: Simple DirectMedia Layer vulnerabilities

7 February 2022

Several security issues were fixed in Simple DirectMedia Layer.

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Releases

Packages

  • libsdl2 - Cross-platform multimedia library with low access to hardware

Details

It was discovered that Simple DirectMedia Layer library incorrectly handled
memory when parsing certain specially crafted .BMP files. An attacker could possibly use
these issues to crash the application or execute arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.