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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18922: libvncserver security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18922: libvncserver security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/30/2020
Created
02/03/2021
Added
02/03/2021
Modified
02/03/2021

Description

It was discovered that websockets.c in LibVNCServer prior to 0.9.12 did not properly decode certain WebSocket frames. A malicious attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted WebSocket frames to a server, causing a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libvncserver

References

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