CVE-2019-5059: Libsdl SDL2 Image

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the XPM image rendering functionality of SDL2_image 2.0.4. A specially crafted XPM image can cause an integer overflow, allocating too small of a buffer. This buffer can then be written out of bounds resulting in a heap overflow, ultimately ending in code execution. An attacker can display a specially crafted image to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Libsdl SDL2 Image: version 2.0.4 only
• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only

Published 2019-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.