CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4743
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-01-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
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.
Affected configurations
• libsdl simple directmedia layer (>= 2.0.4 < 2.26.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18 security.gentoo.org
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00024.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18 security.gentoo.org