Use After Free Affecting libvncserver package, versions <0.9.11+dfsg-1.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
28.07% (97th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Use After Free vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBVNCSERVER-316731
  • published19 Dec 2018
  • disclosed19 Dec 2018

Introduced: 19 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-15126  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 libvncserver to version 0.9.11+dfsg-1.2 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

LibVNC before commit 73cb96fec028a576a5a24417b57723b55854ad7b contains heap use-after-free vulnerability in server code of file transfer extension that can result remote code execution