CVE-2018-20020 (GCVE-0-2018-20020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-19 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:51
VLAI
Summary
LibVNC before commit 7b1ef0ffc4815cab9a96c7278394152bdc89dc4d contains heap out-of-bound write vulnerability inside structure in VNC client code that can result remote code execution
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Heap Out-of-Bound write
Assigner
Kaspersky CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 10 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3877-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://ics-cert.kaspersky.com/advisories/klcert-… x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-05 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/4547-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4547-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4587-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a LibVNC Affected: commit 7b1ef0ffc4815cab9a96c7278394152bdc89dc4d
Date Public
2018-12-19 00:00
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