CVE-2017-5884

gtk-vnc: Improper check of framebuffer boundaries when processing a tile

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.1

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 1, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

It was found that gtk-vnc lacked proper bounds checking while processing messages using RRE, hextile, or copyrect encodings. A remote malicious VNC server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the gtk-vnc library.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write