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CVE-2022-4743

Published: Jan 12, 2023

Modified: Nov 25, 2025

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	SDL2	affected `Affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above, Fixed-in sdl-2.26.0, sdl-prerelease-2.25.1`

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b

[debian-lts-announce] 20230208 [SECURITY] [DLA 3314-1] libsdl2 security update

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