CVE-2020-14409

Publication date 19 January 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 2.0.12 has an Integer Overflow (and resultant SDL_memcpy heap corruption) in SDL_BlitCopy in video/SDL_blit_copy.c via a crafted .BMP file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libsdl1.2	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
libsdl2	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.0.10+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.4+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Notes

mdeslaur

for libsdl1.2, this was fixed by CVE-2019-7637

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libsdl2	Upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/3f9b4e92c1d9

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H