CVE-2026-44988 (GCVE-0-2026-44988)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-27 14:26
Modified
2026-05-29 15:16
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Summary
LibVNCClient is a library for easy implementation of a VNC client. In 0.9.15 and earlier, LibVNCClient's Tight encoding decoder uses fixed-size 2048-pixel scratch buffers for the Gradient filter, but it does not reject Tight rectangles whose width is larger than 2048 pixels. A malicious VNC server can send a crafted FramebufferUpdate rectangle using Tight encoding with NoZlib | ExplicitFilter and the Gradient filter. When a LibVNCClient-based client connects, the client processes the server-controlled rectangle width and writes beyond fixed-size Gradient buffers. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 5b270544b85233668b98161323297d418a8f5fd1.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LibVNC | libvncserver |
Version: <= 0.9.15 |
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Nomenclature
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