CVE-2012-4415

high
Published 2012-10-01 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the guac_client_plugin_open function in libguac in Guacamole before 0.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long protocol name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://guac-dev.org/trac/changeset/7dcefa744b4a38825619c00ae8b47e5bae6e38c0/libguac

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
fedora fedora16affected
fedora fedora17affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
guac-devguacamole{"endIncluding":"0.6.2"}
guac-devguacamole0.5.0
guac-devguacamole0.6.0
guac-devguacamole0.6.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.