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CVE-2020-14409

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 2.0.12 has an Integer Overflow (and resultant SDL_memcpy heap corruption) in SDL_BlitCopy in video/SDL_blit_copy.c via a crafted .BMP file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33
• Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer: from 2.0.12 through 2.0.20
• Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San: v8-build12533, v8-build12658, v8-build12859, v8-build13170, v8-build13586, v8-build13861

References

• https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5200
• https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/3f9b4e92c1d9
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00024.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5FS32YCEJLQ2FYUWSWYI2ZMQWQEAWJNR/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-55
• https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0001/
• https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5200
• https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/3f9b4e92c1d9
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00024.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5FS32YCEJLQ2FYUWSWYI2ZMQWQEAWJNR/

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