CVE-2016-10207
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| suse | 42.1 | affected | |
| suse | 42.2 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.7.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.7.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.7.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.7.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.7.0-1 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10207.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-02/msg00020.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0630.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/22
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/05/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96012
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2000
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023012
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/8aa4bc53206c2430bbf0c8f4b642f59a379ee649
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-13
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10207
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.