01 March 2019

KLCERT-19-021: UltraVNC Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vendor

UltraVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 March 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    February 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    January 2019

Description

UltraVNC revision 1211 has a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in VNC server code inside file transfer offer handler, which can potentially result code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability has been fixed in revision 1212.

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

UltraVNC before 1.2.2.3

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Update UltraVNC to revision 1212.

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 March 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    February 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    January 2019