CVE-2011-0905

Publication date 2 May 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when tight encoding is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted dimensions in a framebuffer update request that triggers an out-of-bounds read operation.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
kdenetwork 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life
libvncserver 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life
vino 11.04 natty
Fixed 2.32.1-0ubuntu2.1
10.10 maverick
Fixed 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.2
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 2.28.2-0ubuntu2.1
9.10 karmic Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 2.22.2-0ubuntu1.1
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

code doesn't seem present in kdenetwork in lucid and maverick turns out libvncserver and kdenetwork aren't vulnerable

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
vino

References

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