CVE-2020-14398

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4434-1

Posted Jul 24, 2020

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 4434-1 - Ramin Farajpour Cami discovered that LibVNCServer incorrectly handled certain malformed unix socket names. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted socket name, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that LibVNCServer did not properly access byte-aligned data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibVNCServer to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, unix, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2019-20839, CVE-2019-20840, CVE-2020-14396, CVE-2020-14397, CVE-2020-14398, CVE-2020-14400, CVE-2020-14401, CVE-2020-14402, CVE-2020-14405

SHA-256 | 5d42906ccf648239aa74d400a8d658ef74c822baa65311e803beacdd0ea77dbb

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