Vulnerability in Libvncserver
CVE-2014-6051
Integer overflow in the MallocFrameBuffer function in vncviewer.c in LibVNCServer 0.9.9 and earlier allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an advertisement for a large screen size, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
EPSS: 0.083 (94.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Libvncserver
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.3
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 20, 21
- Redhat Enterprise_linux_server_aus — versions 6.5
- Redhat Enterprise_linux_server_eus — versions 6.5.z
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)