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CVE-2017-5581

Public on 2017-02-28
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description

A buffer overflow flaw, leading to memory corruption, was found in TigerVNC viewer. A remote malicious VNC server could use this flaw to crash the client vncviewer process resulting in denial of service.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 tigervnc 2017-08-31 15:56 ALAS-2017-879

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H