19 December 2018

KLCERT-18-027: LibVNC Heap Use-After-Free

Vendor

LibVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    19 December 2018

  • Vendor advisory published

    December 2018

  • Vendor releases patch

    November 2018

  • Vulnerability reported

    August 2018

Description

LibVNC before commit 73cb96fec028a576a5a24417b57723b55854ad7b contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the server code of the file transfer extension, which can result in remote code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability has been fixed in 73cb96fec028a576a5a24417b57723b55854ad7b and later.

CVSS v3

0.0

 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

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

LibVNC before commit 73cb96fec028a576a5a24417b57723b55854ad7b

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

    November 2018

  • Vulnerability reported

    August 2018

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