Information Exposure Affecting libvnc/libvncserver package, versions [,0.9.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVNCLIBVNCSERVER-2365265
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jun 2020

CVE-2018-21247  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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 Information Exposure. An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. There is an information leak (of uninitialized memory contents) in the libvncclient/rfbproto.c ConnectToRFBRepeater function.

CVSS Scores

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