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| KL-IDS | KLCERT-20-006 |
| CVE-IDS | CVE-2019-15692 |
| Publication date | 2020.03.23 |
| Researcher | Pavel Cheremushkin, Kaspersky ICS CERT |
| Description | TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1 is vulnerable to heap buffer overflow. Vulnerability could be triggered from CopyRectDecoder due to incorrect value checks. Exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially result into remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. |
| Severity | |
| CVSS v3 Base Score: | 8.8 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C |
| Exploitability | Remotely |
| Difficulty | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Existence of exploit | Unknown |
| Affected products | |
| Affected products | TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1 |
| Mitigation | |
| Vendor mitigation | Update current version of TigerVNC. |
| Timeline |
Nov 2019 – Vulnerabilities reported Dec 2019 – Vendor releases patch Dec 2019 – Advisory published |