Advisories

UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • UltraVNC Viewer <= 1.2.2.4

CWE
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS
7.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Victor Mondragón
Description
UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized string to the VNC Server input field. Attackers can paste a malicious string containing 256 repeated characters into the VNC Server field and click Connect to trigger a buffer overflow that crashes the viewer.

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