01 марта 2019

KLCERT-19-011: UltraVNC Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer

Vendor

UltraVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory updated

    26 января 2024

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 марта 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    февраля 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    17 января 2019

Description

UltraVNC before 1.2.2.4 has out-of-bounds access vulnerability in VNC client inside Ultra2 decoder, which can potentially result in code execution.

Exploitability

Remotely

Attack complexity

Low

User interaction

None

Attack Conditions

The security vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with network access to the affected systems. Successful exploitation requires user connection to the attacker’s server.

Impact

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

Existence of exploit

PoC

Affected products

UltraVNC before 1.2.2.4

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Update UltraVNC to 1.2.2.4 or newer

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory updated

    26 января 2024

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 марта 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    февраля 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    17 января 2019