CVE-2017-5581

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5581
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5581.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5581
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
RHSA (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2017-02-28T18:59:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T10:55:25Z
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

Buffer overflow in the ModifiablePixelBuffer::fillRect function in TigerVNC before 1.7.1 allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via an RRE message with subrectangle outside framebuffer boundaries.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tigervnc/tigervnc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/tigervnc/tigervnc
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
e25272fc74ef09987ccaa33b9bf1736397c76fdf
Fixed
18c020124ff1b2441f714da2017f63dba50720ba
Fixed
6172cc01dd7d1493064571b341c978e2df7725d7
Database specific
Show details 
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        {
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    "source":  [
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    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.0.90
v1.*
v1.1.90
v1.6.90
v1.7.0

Database specific

source 
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vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-08T10:55:25Z"