vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-14409: libsdl2 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 19, 2021
Added
Feb 1, 2021
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 2.0.12 has an Integer Overflow (and resultant SDL_memcpy heap corruption) in SDL_BlitCopy in video/SDL_blit_copy.c via a crafted .BMP file.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libsdl2
Title
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