CVE-2014-6051
N/A
Published: September 30, 2014 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM UTC
6 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraSolaris
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%
Description
Integer overflow in the MallocFrameBuffer function in vncviewer.c in LibVNCServer 0.9.9 and earlier allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an advertisement for a large screen size, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139654.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139445.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00022.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0113.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3081
References (17)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139654.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139445.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00022.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0113.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/639Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPermissions Required
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/61506Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3081x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-007.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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