Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-14906

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CVE-2019-14906

SDL: not fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 erratum RHSA-2019:3950

Published Modified CWE 125, 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high).

Description

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 packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 2SDL, SDL-debuginfo, SDL-devel and 1 more1.2.15-15.amzn2
Oracle Linux 7SDL, SDL-devel, SDL-static1.2.15-15.el7_7
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SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 2SDL1.2.15-15.amzn2
amazon linux 2SDL-debuginfo1.2.15-15.amzn2
amazon linux 2SDL-devel1.2.15-15.amzn2
amazon linux 2SDL-static1.2.15-15.amzn2
Oracle Linux 7SDL1.2.15-15.el7_7
Oracle Linux 7SDL-devel1.2.15-15.el7_7
Oracle Linux 7SDL-static1.2.15-15.el7_7

References

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