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CVE-2019-12220

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in libSDL2.a in Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) 2.0.9 when used in conjunction with libSDL2_image.a in SDL2_image 2.0.4. There is an out-of-bounds read in the SDL function SDL_FreePalette_REAL at video/SDL_pixels.c.

Affected products

• Libsdl Sdl2 Image: 2.0.4
• Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer: 2.0.9

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00029.html
• https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4627
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00021.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00026.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GY6FDFPYUJ7YPY3XB5U75VJHBSVRVIKO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJ2VRD57UOBT72JUC2DIFHEFCH4N64SW/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4238-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00029.html
• https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4627
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00021.html

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