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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2019-3951-01 Important: SDL Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial SDL security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux focuses on fixing severe vulnerabilities and improving overall protection.
An update for SDL is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device.
Security Fix(es):
* SDL: heap-based buffer overflow in SDL blit functions in video/SDL_blit*.c (CVE-2019-13616)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow important heap overflow red hat enterprise linux sdl

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13616 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/97fefd050976bbbfca9608499f6a7d9fb86e70db

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: SDL-1.2.15-36.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: SDL-1.2.15-36.el8_1.aarch64.rpm SDL-debuginfo-1.2.15-36.el8_1.aarch64.rpm SDL-debugsource-1.2.15-36.el8_1.aarch64.rpm SDL-devel-1.2.15-36.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: SDL-1.2.15-36.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SDL-debuginfo-1.2.15-36.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SDL-debugsource-1.2.15-36.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SDL-devel-1.2.15-36.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: SDL-1.2.15-36.el8_1.s390x.rpm SDL-debuginfo-1.2.15-36.el8_1.s390x.rpm SDL-debugsource-1.2.15-36.el8_1.s390x.rpm SDL-devel-1.2.15-36.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: SDL-1.2.15-36.el8_1.i686.rpm SDL-1.2.15-36.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SDL-debuginfo-1.2.15-36.el8_1.i686.rpm SDL-debuginfo-1.2.15-36.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SDL-debugsource-1.2.15-36.el8_1.i686.rpm SDL-debugsource-1.2.15-36.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SDL-devel-1.2.15-36.el8_1.i686.rpm SDL-devel-1.2.15-36.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3951-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3951
Issue date: 2019-11-25

Topic

An update for SDL is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow important heap overflow red hat enterprise linux sdl

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1747237 - CVE-2019-13616 SDL: heap-based buffer overflow in SDL blit functions in video/SDL_blit*.c

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