KLCERT-18-028: LibVNC Heap Out-of-Bound Write

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KLCERT-18-028: LibVNC Heap Out-of-Bound Write

19 December 2018

Vendor

LibVNC

CVE-IDS

2018-15127
KLCERT

KLCERT-18-028

Timeline

Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

19 December 2018
Vendor advisory published

December 2018
Vendor releases patch

October 2018
Vulnerability reported

August 2018

Description

LibVNC before commit 502821828ed00b4a2c4bef90683d0fd88ce495de contains a heap out-of-bound write vulnerability in the server code of the file transfer extension, which can result in remote code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability has been fixed in 502821828ed00b4a2c4bef90683d0fd88ce495de and later.

CVSS v3

0.0

(CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Exploitability

Remotely

Attack complexity

Low

User interaction

None

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Existence of exploit

Unknown

Affected products

LibVNC before commit 502821828ed00b4a2c4bef90683d0fd88ce495de

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Update LibVNC to 0.9.12

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Timeline

Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

19 December 2018
Vendor advisory published

December 2018
Vendor releases patch

October 2018
Vulnerability reported

August 2018