CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-6051

7.5 HIGH Published 2014-09-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-09-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux server aus 6.5 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 6.5.z • fedoraproject fedora 20 • fedoraproject fedora 21 • libvncserver libvncserver (<= 0.9.9) • debian debian linux 7.0 • oracle solaris 11.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References