Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tigervnc package, versions <1.7.0+dfsg-7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.72% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-TIGERVNC-5697882
  • published1 Apr 2017
  • disclosed1 Apr 2017

Introduced: 1 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7392  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 tigervnc to version 1.7.0+dfsg-7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tigervnc package and not the tigervnc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

In TigerVNC 1.7.1 (SSecurityVeNCrypt.cxx SSecurityVeNCrypt::SSecurityVeNCrypt), an unauthenticated client can cause a small memory leak in the server.