Double Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tigervnc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-TIGERVNC-615745
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed1 Apr 2017

Introduced: 1 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7393  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tigervnc package and not the tigervnc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In TigerVNC 1.7.1 (VNCSConnectionST.cxx VNCSConnectionST::fence), an authenticated client can cause a double free, leading to denial of service or potentially code execution.