CVE-2018-20021 (GCVE-0-2018-20021)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-19 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:51
VLAI
Summary
LibVNC before commit c3115350eb8bb635d0fdb4dbbb0d0541f38ed19c contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in VNC client code. Vulnerability allows attacker to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
Kaspersky CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard – unranked: 9 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
URL Tags
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://ics-cert.kaspersky.com/advisories/klcert-… x_refsource_MISC
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-05 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-06 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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 c3115350eb8bb635d0fdb4dbbb0d0541f38ed19c
Date Public
2018-12-19 00:00
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