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Ubuntu: USN-4434-1 (CVE-2019-20840): LibVNCServer vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4434-1 (CVE-2019-20840): LibVNCServer vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/17/2020
Created
08/07/2020
Added
08/05/2020
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. libvncserver/ws_decode.c can lead to a crash because of unaligned accesses in hybiReadAndDecode.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvncclient1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvncserver1

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