CVE-2018-20021

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20021
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20021.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20021
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-12-19T16:29:00.420Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:38:09.242441816Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

LibVNC before commit c3115350eb8bb635d0fdb4dbbb0d0541f38ed19c contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in VNC client code. Vulnerability allows attacker to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.10"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libvnc/libvncserver

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libvnc/libvncserver
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
0a70095271d845d16a3ed17354841b01f33963ad
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.9.12"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libvnc_project:libvncserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

LibVNCServer-0.*
LibVNCServer-0.9.10
LibVNCServer-0.9.11
LibVNCServer-0.9.8
LibVNCServer-0.9.9
Other
X11VNC_0_9_10
X11VNC_0_9_11
X11VNC_0_9_12
X11VNC_0_9_7
X11VNC_0_9_8
X11VNC_0_9_9
X11VNC_REL_0_9_4
X11VNC_REL_0_9_5
X11VNC_REL_0_9_6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20021.json"