Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libvnc/libvncserver package, versions [,0.9.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVNCLIBVNCSERVER-2365259
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jun 2020

CVE-2019-20840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvnc/libvncserver to version 0.9.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. libvncserver/ws_decode.c can lead to a crash because of unaligned accesses in hybiReadAndDecode.

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