CVE-2019-15691

HIGH

TigerVNC < 1.10.1 - Use-After-Free in ZRLEDecoder

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

TigerVNC version prior to 1.10.1 is vulnerable to stack use-after-return, which occurs due to incorrect usage of stack memory in ZRLEDecoder. If decoding routine would throw an exception, ZRLEDecoder may try to access stack variable, which has been already freed during the process of stack unwinding. Exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially result into remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases/tag/v1.10.1
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/20/2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00039.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0472
EPSS Percentile 90.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-825 CWE-672
Status published
Products (2)
opensuse/leap 15.1
tigervnc/tigervnc < 1.10.1
Published Dec 26, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026