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CVE-2019-5051

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-390

Description

An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists when loading a PCX file in SDL2_image, version 2.0.4. A missing error handler can lead to a buffer overflow and potential code execution. An attacker can provide a specially crafted image file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Libsdl Sdl2 Image: 2.0.4
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0, 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00029.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00026.html
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0820
• 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00026.html
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0820
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4238-1/

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