CVE-2020-14409
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 19, 2021 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:54 AM UTC
4 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraSimple Directmedia Layer
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 2.0.12 has an Integer Overflow (and resultant SDL_memcpy heap corruption) in SDL_BlitCopy in video/SDL_blit_copy.c via a crafted .BMP file.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5200Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00024.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.htmlVendor AdvisoryMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5FS32YCEJLQ2FYUWSWYI2ZMQWQEAWJNR/Vendor AdvisoryThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-55Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0001/CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190CWE-787
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