Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-14409

High

Published: 19 January 2021

Published
19 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0020 42.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-14409 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 42.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) through 2.0.12 has an Integer Overflow (and resultant SDL_memcpy heap corruption) in SDL_BlitCopy in video/SDL_blit_copy.c via a crafted .BMP file.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

libsdl
simple directmedia layer
2.0.12 — 2.0.20
fedoraproject
fedora
33
debian
debian linux
9.0
starwindsoftware
starwind virtual san
v8

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References