CVE-2020-14400

Summary

CVECVE-2020-14400
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-17 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. Byte-aligned data is accessed through uint16_t pointers in libvncserver/translate.c. NOTE: Third parties do not consider this to be a vulnerability as there is no known path of exploitation or cross of a trust boundary.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Libvncserver Project Libvncserver All All All All
Application Libvncserver Project Libvncserver All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1056-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0988-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
libvncserver: fix pointer aliasing/alignment issue · LibVNC/libvncserver@53073c8 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Comparing LibVNCServer-0.9.12...LibVNCServer-0.9.13 · LibVNC/libvncserver · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
USN-4434-1: LibVNCServer vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2264-1] libvncserver security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1025-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
1860361 – (CVE-2020-14400) CVE-2020-14400 libvncserver: byte-aligned data is accessed through uint16_t pointers in libvncserver/translate.c MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2347-1] libvncserver security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501068 Alpine Linux Security Update for libvncserver
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