CVE-2019-12221
mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.020 · 80 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.96% (80th) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in libSDL2.a in Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) 2.0.9 when used in conjunction with libSDL2_image.a in SDL2_image 2.0.4. There is a SEGV in the SDL function SDL_free_REAL at stdlib/SDL_malloc.c.
01
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
6.5
010
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6
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weaknesses
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affected products (11)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- libsdl simple directmedia layer= 2.0.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:libsdl:simple_directmedia_layer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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also known as (3)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
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sources
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references (30)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00012.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00029.htmlcnnvd
- https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4628cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00021.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00026.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GY6FDFPYUJ7YPY3XB5U75VJHBSVRVIKO/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJ2VRD57UOBT72JUC2DIFHEFCH4N64SW/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12221cnnvd
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