19 декабря 2018

KLCERT-18-026: LibVNC Heap Use-After-Free

Vendor

LibVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    19 декабря 2018

  • Advisory published

    декабря 2018

  • Vendor releases patch

    октября 2018

  • Vulnerability reported

    августа 2018

Description

LibVNC before commit ca2a5ac02fbbadd0a21fabba779c1ea69173d10b contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the server code of the file transfer extension, which can result in remote code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability has been fixed in ca2a5ac02fbbadd0a21fabba779c1ea69173d10b and later.

Exploitability

Remotely

Attack complexity

Low

User interaction

None

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Existence of exploit

Unknown

Affected products

LibVNC before commit ca2a5ac02fbbadd0a21fabba779c1ea69173d10b

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Update LibVNC to 0.9.12

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    19 декабря 2018

  • Advisory published

    декабря 2018

  • Vendor releases patch

    октября 2018

  • Vulnerability reported

    августа 2018