Vigil@nce - Simple DirectMedia Layer: out-of-bounds memory reading via BlitNtoN
November 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service, denial
of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 05/09/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via BlitNtoN()
of Simple DirectMedia Layer, in order to trigger a denial of
service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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