01 марта 2019

KLCERT-19-017: UltraVNC Out-of-bounds Read

Vendor

UltraVNC

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 марта 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    февраля 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    января 2019

Description

UltraVNC revision 1210 has out-of-bounds read vulnerability in VNC client code inside Ultra decoder, which results in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability has been fixed in revision 1211.

Exploitability

Remotely

Attack complexity

Low

User interaction

None

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause denial of service.

Existence of exploit

Unknown

Affected products

UltraVNC before 1.2.2.3

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Update UltraVNC to revision 1211.

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    01 марта 2019

  • Vendor releases patch

    февраля 2019

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    января 2019