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Cent OS: CVE-2014-6051: CESA-2014:1826 (libvncserver)

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Cent OS: CVE-2014-6051: CESA-2014:1826 (libvncserver)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/30/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Integer overflow in the MallocFrameBuffer function in vncviewer.c in LibVNCServer 0.9.9 and earlier allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an advertisement for a large screen size, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-libvncserver
  • centos-upgrade-libvncserver-devel

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