CVE-2018-7226

Publication date 19 February 2018

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in vcSetXCutTextProc() in VNConsole.c in LinuxVNC and VNCommand from the LibVNC/vncterm distribution through 0.9.10. Missing sanitization of the client-specified message length may cause integer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact via a specially crafted VNC packet.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vncterm 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

Access our resources on patching vulnerabilities