Description

A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack. The vulnerability affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above. SDL-1.x are not affected.

Related CPE's

a

libsdl

simple_directmedia_layer

Vulnerable

o

redhat

enterprise_linux

9.0

Vulnerable

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290

Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290

Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00024.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18

Weaknesses

[email protected]

Primary
CWE-401

134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Secondary
CWE-401

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 · High

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Modified

Published

2023-01-12T18:15:24.457Z

3 years ago

Last modified

2025-11-25T20:15:53.873Z

4 months ago