CVE-2022-4743 (GCVE-0-2022-4743)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-12 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-25 21:04
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-08 13:46 UTC
CWE
- NA
- CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
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