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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5581: Vulnerability in VNC

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5581: Vulnerability in VNC

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/28/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

Buffer overflow in the ModifiablePixelBuffer::fillRect function in TigerVNC before 1.7.1 allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via an RRE message with subrectangle outside framebuffer boundaries.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-desktop-remote-desktop-tigervnc-1-7-1-0-175-3-31-0-4-1547
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-toolkit-fltk-1-3-4-0-175-3-31-0-4-1547
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xvnc-1-7-1-0-175-3-31-0-4-1547

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