CVE-2017-18922 (GCVE-0-2017-18922)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-30 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:45
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Summary
It was discovered that websockets.c in LibVNCServer prior to 0.9.12 did not properly decode certain WebSocket frames. A malicious attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted WebSocket frames to a server, causing a heap-based buffer overflow.
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