CVE-2016-9942

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9942
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9942.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9942
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-12-31T18:59:00.180Z
Modified
2026-07-08T15:09:52.583050Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in ultra.c in LibVNCClient in LibVNCServer before 0.9.11 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted FramebufferUpdate message with the Ultra type tile, such that the LZO payload decompressed length exceeds what is specified by the tile dimensions.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libvnc/libvncserver

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libvnc/libvncserver
Events
Introduced
d8bc98386a820e608c88501c1d4e80e047a5bd32
Last affected
d8bc98386a820e608c88501c1d4e80e047a5bd32
Fixed
8415ff4c3517c6697d53e1a17bba35284f480891
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libvncserver_project:libvncserver:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.9.10"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.9.10"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.10
LibVNCServer-0.*
LibVNCServer-0.9.10

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9942.json"