CVE-2019-13616

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer over-read in BlitNtoN in video/SDL_blit_N.c when called from SDL_SoftBlit in video/SDL_blit.c.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

USN-4238-1 addressed serveral vulnerabilities in SDL_image. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libsdl1.2	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.2.15+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.2.15-8ubuntu1.1+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
libsdl2	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed
libsdl2-image	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage
sdl-image1.2	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.2.12-8ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.2.12-5+deb9u1ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.2.12-5+deb9u1ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1 Ubuntu Pro

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Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libsdl1.2	Upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/ad1bbfbca760
libsdl2	Upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/e7ba650a643a
libsdl2-image	Upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_image/rev/ba45f00879ba
sdl-image1.2	Upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_image/rev/a59bfe382008

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4156-2
SDL vulnerabilities
16 October 2019

USN-4156-1
SDL vulnerabilities
15 October 2019

USN-4238-1
SDL_image vulnerabilities
14 January 2020

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13616