CVE-2014-6051
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 8.3%
exploitation probability
8.3%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139654.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139445.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00022.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0113.htmlhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/639http://secunia.com/advisories/61506https://github.com/newsoft/libvncserver/commit/045a044e8ae79db9244593fbce154cdf6e843273https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00042.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-07https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-36https://usn.ubuntu.com/4587-1/https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140923-1.txt