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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-12222: Security patch for SDL2 (ALAS-2019-1318)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-12222: Security patch for SDL2 (ALAS-2019-1318)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/20/2019
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in libSDL2.a in Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) 2.0.9. There is an out-of-bounds read in the function SDL_InvalidateMap at video/SDL_pixels.c.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sdl2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sdl2-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sdl2-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sdl2-static

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