CVE-2019-7573

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer over-read in InitMS_ADPCM in audio/SDL_wave.c (inside the wNumCoef loop).

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 31
Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer: through 1.2.15; from 2.0.0 through 2.0.9
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 42.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00063.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00073.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00088.html
https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4491
https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/vulnerabilities-found-in-libsdl-1-2-15/25720
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00015.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00016.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00020.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00021.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00032.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7ZO47LLKKRXKMUGSRCFNHSTHG5OEBYCG/

Get alerted when CVE-2019-7573 or the next vulnerability affects your stack