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RealVNC Connection Flooding Denial-of-Service

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RealVNC Connection Flooding Denial-of-Service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/31/2004
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/19/2005
Modified
03/21/2018

Description

Certain versions of RealVNC server are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack if a remote attacker opens over sixty concurrent connections to its HTTP port. Successful exploitation crashes the VNC service entirely and prevents any legitimate users from logging onto the system.

Solution(s)

  • http-realvnc-connection-flooding-dos

References

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