The Xvnc server in TigerVNC allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) by terminating a TLS…

Description

The Xvnc server in TigerVNC allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) by terminating a TLS handshake early.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023012 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:0630 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:2000 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20170202 CVE request tigervnc: vnc server can crash when TLS handshake terminates early (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20170204 Re: CVE request tigervnc: vnc server can crash when TLS handshake terminates early (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2017:0444 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/8aa4bc53206c2430bbf0c8f4b642f59a379ee649 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 96012 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-201801-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 03:14 UTC.