vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-20021: LibVNCServer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 19, 2018
Added
Aug 13, 2019
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

LibVNC before commit c3115350eb8bb635d0fdb4dbbb0d0541f38ed19c contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in VNC client code. Vulnerability allows attacker to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-libvncservergentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-ssvnc
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