FKIE_CVE-2018-15127

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-12-19 16:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:42
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
LibVNC before commit 502821828ed00b4a2c4bef90683d0fd88ce495de contains heap out-of-bound write vulnerability in server code of file transfer extension that can result remote code execution
References
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0059Third Party Advisory
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://ics-cert.kaspersky.com/advisories/klcert-advisories/2018/12/19/klcert-18-028-libvnc-heap-out-of-bound-write/Third Party Advisory
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00042.html
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3877-1/Third Party Advisory
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4547-1/
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4587-1/
vulnerability@kaspersky.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4383Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0059Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ics-cert.kaspersky.com/advisories/klcert-advisories/2018/12/19/klcert-18-028-libvnc-heap-out-of-bound-write/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00042.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3877-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4547-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4587-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4383Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libvnc_project libvncserver *
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.10
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.6
redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus 7.6
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 7.6
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
debian debian_linux 9.0
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