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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • NA
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a SDL2 Affected: Affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above, Fixed-in sdl-2.26.0, sdl-prerelease-2.25.1
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