CVE details
CVE-2019-14906
A flaw was found with the RHSA-2019:3950 erratum, where it did not fix the CVE-2019-13616 SDL vulnerability. This issue only affects Red Hat SDL packages, SDL versions through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow flaw while copying an existing surface into a new optimized one, due to a lack of validation while loading a BMP image, is possible. An application that uses SDL to parse untrusted input files may be vulnerable to this flaw, which could allow an attacker to make the application crash or execute code.
Affected ports (2)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| devel/linux-c7-sdl12 | linux-c7-sdl | 1.2.15_3 | unaddressed | emulation@FreeBSD.org |
| devel/sdl12 | sdl | 1.2.15_17,2 | unaddressed | amdmi3@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>linux-c7-sdl</name>
<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
</package>
<package>
<name>sdl</name>
<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>A flaw was found with the RHSA-2019:3950 erratum, where it did not fix
the CVE-2019-13616 SDL vulnerability. This issue only affects Red Hat
SDL packages, SDL versions through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a
heap-based buffer overflow flaw while copying an existing surface into
a new optimized one, due to a lack of validation while loading a BMP
image, is possible. An application that uses SDL to parse untrusted
input files may be vulnerable to this flaw, which could allow an
attacker to make the application crash or execute code.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2019-14906</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14906</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2020-01-07</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-25</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>