Heap out-of-bounds read in Simple DirectMedia Layer - CVE-2019-7577

 

Heap out-of-bounds read in Simple DirectMedia Layer - CVE-2019-7577

Published: February 14, 2019 / Updated: March 7, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17687
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7577
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read condition in the SDL_LoadWAV_RW function. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a crafted image file and perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

Simple DirectMedia Layer
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Opensuse
Fedora
busybox (Alpine package)
libsdl1.2 (Ubuntu package)
sdl (Alpine package)
SDL (Red Hat package)
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
mingw-SDL
SDL

How to mitigate CVE-2019-7577

Install update from vendor's website.

libsdl1.2 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.2.15+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.1, 1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1ubuntu0.1
sdl (Alpine package) - update to 1.2.15-r8
SDL (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.2.15-17.el7, 1.2.15-38.el8
mingw-SDL - update to 1.2.15-14.fc31
SDL - addressed in versions 1.2.15-31.fc28, 1.2.15-32.fc28, 1.2.15-36.fc29, 1.2.15-37.fc29, 1.2.15-38.fc30

External References

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