CVE-2022-4743

high

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18

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

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

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

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-01-12

Updated: 2025-04-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00031