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CVE-2009-0388 (GCVE-0-2009-0388)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-02-04 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:31
VLAI
Summary
Multiple integer signedness errors in (1) UltraVNC 1.0.2 and 1.0.5 and (2) TightVnc 1.3.9 allow remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large length value in a message, related to the (a) ClientConnection::CheckBufferSize and (b) ClientConnection::CheckFileZipBufferSize functions in ClientConnection.cpp.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2009-01-21 00:00
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