Ubuntu: USN-5398-1 (CVE-2021-33657): Simple DirectMedia Layer vulnerability
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
04/01/2022
05/03/2022
04/29/2022
03/22/2023
Description
There is a heap overflow problem in video/SDL_pixels.c in SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) 2.x to 2.0.18 versions. By crafting a malicious .BMP file, an attacker can cause the application using this library to crash, denial of service or Code execution.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libsdl1-2debian
- ubuntu-upgrade-libsdl2-2-0-0
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