NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libsdl2-image package, versions <2.0.1+dfsg-2+deb9u2
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- published20 May 2019
- disclosed20 May 2019
Introduced: 20 May 2019
CVE-2019-12217 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 libsdl2-image to version 2.0.1+dfsg-2+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libsdl2-image package and not the libsdl2-image package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
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 a NULL pointer dereference in the SDL stdio_read function in file/SDL_rwops.c.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12217
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12217
- 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@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GY6FDFPYUJ7YPY3XB5U75VJHBSVRVIKO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJ2VRD57UOBT72JUC2DIFHEFCH4N64SW/
- https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4626
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00029.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4238-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-12217
- 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/