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The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 11, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when tight encoding is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted dimensions in a framebuffer update request that triggers an out-of-bounds read operation.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 10, 2011
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Apr 11, 2025

Severity

Low

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2011-0905

GHSA ID

GHSA-fx9f-m844-h4j5

Source code

No known source code

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