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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-9941: libvncsever security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 31, 2016
Added
Nov 30, 2017
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in rfbproto.c in LibVNCClient in LibVNCServer before 0.9.11 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted FramebufferUpdate message containing a subrectangle outside of the client drawing area.

Solution

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libvncserver
Title
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