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23 March 2020

KLCERT-20-006: Remote Code Execution on TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1

Vendor

TigerVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    23 March 2020

  • Vendor releases patch

    December 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    November 2019

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.

CVSS v3

0.0

 (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

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

TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Update current version of TigerVNC.

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    23 March 2020

  • Vendor releases patch

    December 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    November 2019

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