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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-4743: Security patch for SDL2 (ALAS-2023-2162)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-4743: Security patch for SDL2 (ALAS-2023-2162)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/12/2023
Created
07/27/2023
Added
07/27/2023
Modified
07/27/2023

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.

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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