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CVE-2017-7396

Public on 2017-04-01
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description

A memory leak flaw was found in the way TigerVNC handled client connections. A remote unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly send connection requests to the Xvnc server, causing it to consume large amounts of memory resources over time, and ultimately leading to a denial of service due to memory exhaustion.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.7
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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 3.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H