Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release Affecting tigervnc/tigervnc package, versions [,1.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.72% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TIGERVNCTIGERVNC-2366362
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-15691  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-672  (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 Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release. TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1 is vulnerable to stack use-after-return, which occurs due to incorrect usage of stack memory in ZRLEDecoder. If decoding routine would throw an exception, ZRLEDecoder may try to access stack variable, which has been already freed during the process of stack unwinding. Exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially result into remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity.

CVSS Base Scores

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