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| KL-IDS | KLCERT-19-005 |
| CVE-IDS | CVE-2019-8259 |
| Publication date | 2019.03.01 |
| Researcher | Pavel Cheremushkin, Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT |
| Description | UltraVNC revision 1198 contains multiple memory leaks (CWE-655) in VNC client code, which 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 and bypass ASLR. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. These vulnerabilities have been fixed in revision 1199. |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. |
| Severity | |
| CVSS v3 Base Score: | 9.3 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| Exploitability | Remotely |
| Difficulty | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Existence of exploit | Unknown |
| Affected products | |
| Affected products | UltraVNC before 1.2.2.3 |
| Mitigation | |
| Vendor mitigation | Update UltraVNC to revision 1199. |
| Timeline |
Jan 2019 – Vulnerabilities reported Feb 2019 – Vendor releases patch Mar 2019 – Advisory published |