CVE-2022-4743: Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer: from 2.0.4, before 2.26.0 (fixed in 2.26.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 9.0 only

Published 2023-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.