SB2019092530 - Fedora 29 update for SDL2

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SB2019092530 - Fedora 29 update for SDL2

Published: September 25, 2019 Updated: April 25, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2019092530
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13616)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read in the "BlitNtoN" function in the "video/SDL_blit_N.c" file when called from the "SDL_SoftBlit" function in the "video/SDL_blit.c" file. A remote attacker can trick a victim to open a specially crafted file and perform a denial of service attack.


2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12222)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read in libSDL2.a due to an out-of-bounds read in the function SDL_InvalidateMap at video/SDL_pixels.c.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References