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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-20840: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 17, 2020
Added
Aug 7, 2020
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. libvncserver/ws_decode.c can lead to a crash because of unaligned accesses in hybiReadAndDecode.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libvncserver
Title
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