Gstreamer: gstreamer: rfbsrc/librfb hextile heap out-of-bounds write with 16bpp framebuffer
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 83% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in GStreamer's rfbsrc plugin. When a client connects to a malicious RFB/VNC server that advertises a 16bpp framebuffer and sends Hextile-encoded updates, the Hextile background fill path writes 32-bit pixel values into a buffer allocated for 16-bit pixels. This type mismatch causes an out-of-bounds heap write that can lead to denial of service (process crash) and potential memory corruption.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47179https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47180https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47731https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-59691https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2497343https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-security/-/merge_requests/100https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/work_items/5173