Out-of-bounds read in Simple DirectMedia Layer - CVE-2019-13616

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Out-of-bounds read in Simple DirectMedia Layer - CVE-2019-13616

Published: July 19, 2019 / Updated: March 7, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19259
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2019-13616
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 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.


Affected software

Simple DirectMedia Layer
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Fedora
libsdl1.2 (Ubuntu package)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
mingw-SDL
SDL
cabextract (Alpine package)
SDL2
mingw-SDL2

How to mitigate CVE-2019-13616

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
mingw-SDL - update to 1.2.15-14.fc31
SDL - addressed in versions 1.2.15-40.fc29, 1.2.15-41.fc30, 1.2.15-42.fc31
cabextract (Alpine package) - update to 1.9.1-r0
SDL2 - update to 2.0.10-1.fc29
mingw-SDL2 - update to 2.0.10-1.fc31

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