Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tigervnc/tigervnc package, versions [,1.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.28% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TIGERVNCTIGERVNC-2366358
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-15693  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tigervnc/tigervnc to version 1.10.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1 is vulnerable to heap buffer overflow, which occurs in TightDecoder::FilterGradient. Exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially result into remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1