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CVE-2019-12216
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…
Medium6.5EPSS 2.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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 heap-based buffer overflow in the SDL2_image function IMG_LoadPCX_RW at IMG_pcx.c.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4619 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190722 [SECURITY] [DLA 1861-1] libsdl2-image security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190727 [SECURITY] [DLA 1865-1] sdl-image1.2 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-a6bc0fb143 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-4238-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-ff2fe47ba4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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