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CVE-2018-15127

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-12-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

LibVNC before commit 502821828ed00b4a2c4bef90683d0fd88ce495de contains heap out-of-bound write vulnerability in server code of file transfer extension that can result remote code execution

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Libvnc Project Libvncserver: before 0.9.12 — fixed in 0.9.12
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Libvnc Project Libvncserver 0.9.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0059
• https://ics-cert.kaspersky.com/advisories/klcert-advisories/2018/12/19/klcert-18-028-libvnc-heap-out-of-bound-write/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00042.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3877-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4547-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4587-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4383
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0059
• https://ics-cert.kaspersky.com/advisories/klcert-advisories/2018/12/19/klcert-18-028-libvnc-heap-out-of-bound-write/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00042.html

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