CVE-2019-7638

Publication date 8 February 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer over-read in Map1toN in video/SDL_pixels.c.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

USN-4143-1 addressed serveral vulnerabilities in SDL 2.0. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libsdl1.2	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.2.15+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.2.15-8ubuntu1.1+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
libsdl2	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Fixed 2.0.9+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.19.04.1
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.0.4+dfsg1-2ubuntu2.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.0.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu Pro

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libsdl1.2	Upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/19d8c3b9c251
libsdl2	Upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/07c39cbbeacf

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H