Out-of-bounds Read Affecting vino package, versions <0:2.28.1-8.el6_3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.5% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-VINO-1451463
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 May 2011

Introduced: 2 May 2011

CVE-2011-0905  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 vino to version 0:2.28.1-8.el6_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2013:0169.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vino package and not the vino package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when tight encoding is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted dimensions in a framebuffer update request that triggers an out-of-bounds read operation.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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