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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-21247
An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. There is an information leak (of uninitialized memory contents) in the libvncclient/rfbproto.c...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. There is an information leak (of uninitialized memory contents) in the libvncclient/rfbproto.c ConnectToRFBRepeater function.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
libvncserver
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.9.11+dfsg-1.2"}]}]
Debian:13
libvncserver
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.9.11+dfsg-1.2"}]}]
Debian:14
libvncserver
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.9.11+dfsg-1.2"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org