SB2015050203 - Ubuntu update for vino
Published: May 2, 2015 Updated: October 30, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0904)
CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to perform service disruption.
The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when raw encoding is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large (1) X position or (2) Y position value in a framebuffer update request that triggers an out-of-bounds memory access, related to the rfbTranslateNone and rfbSendRectEncodingRaw functions.
2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0905)
CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to perform service disruption.
The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when tight encoding is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted dimensions in a framebuffer update request that triggers an out-of-bounds read operation.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.