CVE-2019-15693

Summary

CVECVE-2019-15693
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-12-26 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-20 15:40:00 UTC
DescriptionTigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1 is vulnerable to heap buffer overflow, which occurs in TightDecoder::FilterGradient. Exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially result into remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tigervnc Tigervnc All All All All
Application Tigervnc Tigervnc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0087-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Release TigerVNC 1.10.1 · TigerVNC/tigervnc · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Handle empty Tight gradient rects · CendioOssman/tigervnc@b4ada8d · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - VNC vulnerabilities. TigerVNC security update MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296075 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21.69.0 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 377514 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for tigervnc (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0126)
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