CVE-2017-18922 Information

Description

It was discovered that websockets.c in LibVNCServer prior to 0.9.12 did not properly decode certain WebSocket frames. A malicious attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted WebSocket frames to a server causing a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00028.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00033.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00055.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00066.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/30/3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1852356 https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/commit/aac95a9dcf4bbba87b76c72706c3221a842ca433 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4F6FUH4EFK4NAP6GT4TQRTBKWIRCZLIY/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NVP7TJVYJDXDFRHVQ3ENEN3H354QPXEZ/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4407-1/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/30/2

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8