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Fedora 26 SDL2 Security Advisory: Integer Overflow and New Functions

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Key Fedora 26 SDL2 enhancement introduces new audio functionalities and resolves integer overflow vulnerabilities. Upgrade advised.
- Added audio stream conversion functions: - `SDL_NewAudioStream()` - `SDL_AudioStreamPut()` - `SDL_AudioStreamGet()` - `SDL_AudioStreamAvailable()` - `SDL_AudioStreamFlu...

Summary

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed

to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device.

- Added audio stream conversion functions: - `SDL_NewAudioStream()` -`SDL_AudioStreamPut()` - `SDL_AudioStreamGet()` -`SDL_AudioStreamAvailable()` - `SDL_AudioStreamFlush()` -`SDL_AudioStreamClear()` - `SDL_FreeAudioStream()` - Added functions to

query and set the SDL memory allocation functions: -`SDL_GetMemoryFunctions()` - `SDL_SetMemoryFunctions()` -`SDL_GetNumAllocations()` - Added locking functions for multi-threaded access to

the joystick and game controller APIs: - `SDL_LockJoysticks()` -`SDL_UnlockJoysticks()` - The following functions are now thread-safe: -`SDL_SetEventFilter()` - `SDL_GetEventFilter()` - `SDL_AddEventWatch()`

- `SDL_DelEventWatch()` ---- Fix CVE-2017-2888

[ 1 ] Bug #1500734 - CVE-2017-2888 SDL2: SDL: Integer overflow while creating a new RGB surface [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500734

su -c 'dnf upgrade SDL2' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.0.7
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: A cross-platform multimedia library

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