Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libsdl, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Announced

2023-05-03

Revised

2023-05-03

Access

remote

Bugs

#692388 #836665 #861809

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-17

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
media-libs/libsdl	*	< 1.2.15_p20221201	>= 1.2.15_p20221201

Background

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SDL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libsdl users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.15_p20221201"

References

• CVE-2019-7572
• CVE-2019-7573
• CVE-2019-7574
• CVE-2019-7575
• CVE-2019-7576
• CVE-2019-7577
• CVE-2019-7578
• CVE-2019-7635
• CVE-2019-7636
• CVE-2019-7638
• CVE-2019-13616
• CVE-2021-33657
• CVE-2022-34568