Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tigervnc package, versions <1.8.0-13.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-TIGERVNC-2719585
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed16 Jan 2020

Introduced: 16 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-15694  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 tigervnc to version 1.8.0-13.11.1 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 SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1 is vulnerable to heap buffer overflow, which could be triggered from DecodeManager::decodeRect. Vulnerability occurs due to the signdness error in processing MemOutStream. Exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially result into remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity.

CVSS Scores

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