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CVE-2022-4743
A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles.c. The vulnerability allows an…
High7.5EPSS 1.3%
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- redhat
Description
A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack. The vulnerability affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above. SDL-1.x are not affected.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
SDL2
- affected Affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above, Fixed-in sdl-2.26.0, sdl-prerelease-2.25.1
References (7)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230208 [SECURITY] [DLA 3314-1] libsdl2 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- GLSA-202305-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00024.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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