CVE-2018-7226

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-7226
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-19 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-09 23:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in vcSetXCutTextProc() in VNConsole.c in LinuxVNC and VNCommand from the LibVNC/vncterm distribution through 0.9.10. Missing sanitization of the client-specified message length may cause integer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact via a specially crafted VNC packet.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vncterm Project Vncterm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: LibVNCServer rfbserver.c: rfbProcessClientNormalMessage() case rfbClientCutText doesn't sanitize msg.cct.length MISC openwall.com Mailing List
Security: VNConsole.c: vcSetXCutTextProc() integer overflow and unchecked malloc() · Issue #6 · LibVNC/vncterm · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
LibVNCServer: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-05) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710154 Gentoo Linux LibVNCServer Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-05)
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