01 марта 2019

KLCERT-19-005: UltraVNC Memory Leak

Vendor

UltraVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 марта 2019

  • Advisory published

    марта 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    февраля 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    января 2019

Description

UltraVNC revision 1198 contains multiple memory leaks (CWE-655) in VNC client code, which allow an attacker to read stack memory and can be abused for information disclosure. Combined with another vulnerability, it can be used to leak stack memory and bypass ASLR. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. These vulnerabilities have been fixed in revision 1199.

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

UltraVNC before 1.2.2.3

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Update UltraVNC to revision 1199.

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 марта 2019

  • Advisory published

    марта 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    февраля 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    января 2019