NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting sdl-image1.2 package, versions <1.2.12-5+deb9u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.27% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SDLIMAGE12-347947
  • published20 May 2019
  • disclosed20 May 2019

Introduced: 20 May 2019

CVE-2019-12217  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 sdl-image1.2 to version 1.2.12-5+deb9u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sdl-image1.2 package and not the sdl-image1.2 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.