Out-of-Bounds Affecting libvncserver package, versions <0.9.13-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-LIBVNCSERVER-7012776
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed17 Jun 2020

Introduced: 17 Jun 2020

CVE-2019-20840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 libvncserver to version 0.9.13-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvncserver package and not the libvncserver package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. libvncserver/ws_decode.c can lead to a crash because of unaligned accesses in hybiReadAndDecode.

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