Use After Free Affecting libvncserver package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.51% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBVNCSERVER-1328366
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Dec 2018

Introduced: 19 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20020  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 libvncserver.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvncserver package and not the libvncserver package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

LibVNC before commit 7b1ef0ffc4815cab9a96c7278394152bdc89dc4d contains heap out-of-bound write vulnerability inside structure in VNC client code that can result remote code execution