Resource Management Errors Affecting tigervnc/tigervnc package, versions [,1.7.90)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.03% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TIGERVNCTIGERVNC-2366359
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7396  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tigervnc/tigervnc to version 1.7.90 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. In TigerVNC 1.7.1 (CConnection.cxx CConnection::CConnection), an unauthenticated client can cause a small memory leak in the server.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1