CVE-2022-4743

Summary

CVECVE-2022-4743
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-12 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-03 12:16:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-401

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
2156290 – (CVE-2022-4743) CVE-2022-4743 SDL2: memory leak in GLES_CreateTexture() in render/opengles/SDL_render_gles.c MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3314-1] libsdl2 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
libsdl2: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-18) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Fix memory leak in GLES_CreateTexture by xiaoxiaoafeifei · Pull Request #6269 · libsdl-org/SDL · GitHub MISC github.com
Fix potential memory leak in GLES_CreateTexture · libsdl-org/SDL@00b67f5 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181548 Debian Security Update for libsdl2 (DLA 3314-1)
  • 182925 Debian Security Update for libsdl2 (CVE-2022-4743)
  • 296100 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 58.144.3 Missing (CPUAPR2023)
  • 355686 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for SDL2 : ALAS2-2023-2162
  • 710723 Gentoo Linux libsdl2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-18)
  • 753503 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for SDL2 (SUSE-SU-2023:0069-1)
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