CVE-2022-4743

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 1.32 % · percentile 71 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-01-12
Updated: 2025-11-25
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-401

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-52041
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-4743

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0119 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:libsdl:simple_directmedia_layer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.0.4 < 2.26.0
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
SDL2	affected Affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above, Fixed-in sdl-2.26.0, sdl-prerelease-2.25.1

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD