Bug 1418944 (CVE-2017-5884)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5884 gtk-vnc: Improper check of framebuffer boundaries when processing a tile
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, bmcclain, cfergeau, dblechte, eedri, erik-fedora, fidencio, lsurette, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, rh-spice-bugs, rjones, sbonazzo, srevivo, virt-maint, ykaul
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was found that gtk-vnc lacked proper bounds checking while processing messages using RRE, hextile, or copyrect encodings. A remote malicious VNC server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the gtk-vnc library.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:06:59 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1418955, 1418956, 1425367
Bug Blocks:	1415638, 1418954

Description Adam Mariš 2017-02-03 08:52:02 UTC

It was found that gtk-vnc does not properly check boundaries of subrectangle-containing tiles. A malicious server can use this to overwrite parts of the client memory, potentially leading to code execution under privileges of the user running the VNC client.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778048

Upstream patch:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk-vnc/commit/?id=ea0386933214c9178

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-02-03 09:12:42 UTC

Created gtk-vnc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1418955]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-02-03 09:13:00 UTC

Created mingw-gtk-vnc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1418956]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2017-02-06 08:45:06 UTC

CVE assignment:

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/05/5

CVE covers all issues mentioned in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778048#c1

Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2017-02-07 14:13:49 UTC

Upstream fix in git master is

commit ea0386933214c9178aaea9f2f85049ea3fa3e14a
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange>
Date:   Thu Feb 2 17:34:47 2017 +0000

    Fix bounds checking for RRE, hextile & copyrect encodings
    
    While the client would bounds check the overall update
    region, it failed to bounds check the payload data
    parameters.
    
    Add a test case to validate bounds checking.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778048
    
    CVE-2017-5884
    
    Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange>

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 19:56:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2258 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2258