19 December 2018

KLCERT-18-032: LibVNC Multiple Memory Leaks

Vendor

LibVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    19 December 2018

  • Vendor advisory published

    December 2018

  • Vendor releases patch

    September 2018

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    September 2018

Description

LibVNC before 2f5b2ad1c6c99b1ac6482c95844a84d66bb52838 contains multiple CWE-665: Improper Initialization weaknesses in VNC client code, which could allow an attacker to read stack memory and can be abused for information disclosure. Combined with another vulnerability, it can be used to leak stack memory layout and bypass ASLR. This vulnerability has been fixed in 2f5b2ad1c6c99b1ac6482c95844a84d66bb52838 and later.

Exploitability

Remotely

Attack complexity

Low

User interaction

None

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause information disclosure and expand attack vectors.

Existence of exploit

Unknown

Affected products

LibVNC before commit 2f5b2ad1c6c99b1ac6482c95844a84d66bb52838

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

    September 2018

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    September 2018