| Name | CVE-2018-21247 |
| Description | 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 | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1617-1, DSA-4383-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| libvncserver (PTS) | buster | 0.9.11+dfsg-1.3+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 0.9.11+dfsg-1.3+deb10u5 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 0.9.13+dfsg-2+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 0.9.13+dfsg-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libvncserver | source | jessie | 0.9.9+dfsg2-6.1+deb8u4 | DLA-1617-1 | ||
| libvncserver | source | stretch | 0.9.11+dfsg-1.3~deb9u1 | DSA-4383-1 | ||
| libvncserver | source | (unstable) | 0.9.11+dfsg-1.2 |
https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/issues/253
https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/commit/8b06f835e259652b0ff026898014fc7297ade858