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CVE-2014-6051 (GCVE-0-2014-6051)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-09-30 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:03
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the MallocFrameBuffer function in vncviewer.c in LibVNCServer 0.9.9 and earlier allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an advertisement for a large screen size, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4587-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2014-09-20 00:00
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