CVE-2022-4743

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.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156290	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/00b67f55727bc0944c3266e2b875440da132ce4b	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6269	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00008.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00024.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-18

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:libsdl:simple_directmedia_layer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

25 Nov 2025, 21:15

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References		() https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00024.html -

Information

Published : 2023-01-12 19:15

Updated : 2025-11-25 21:15

NVD link : CVE-2022-4743

Mitre link : CVE-2022-4743

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-4743

JSON object : View

Products Affected

redhat

enterprise_linux

libsdl

simple_directmedia_layer

CWE

CWE-401

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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