RHSA-2019:3950 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: SDL security update

Loading…

Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 25, 2019

Updated · June 27, 2026

Topic

An update for SDL is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

[Updated 3 December 2019] The packages distributed via this erratum did not include the fix for CVE-2019-13616 as claimed. RHSA-2019:4024 was released on 2 December 2019 to address this issue.

Description

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2019:3950 — Red Hat Security Advisory: SDL security update | PulseLinux