Bug 1849881 (CVE-2019-20840) - CVE-2019-20840 libvncserver: unaligned accesses in hybiReadAndDecode can lead to a crash
Summary: CVE-2019-20840 libvncserver: unaligned accesses in hybiReadAndDecode can lead...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-20840
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1849882 1849883
Blocks: 1849880
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-06-23 06:28 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2020-06-30 17:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-06-30 17:20:35 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-06-23 06:28:09 UTC 
An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. libvncserver/ws_decode.c can lead to a crash because of unaligned accesses in hybiReadAndDecode.

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https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/commit/0cf1400c61850065de590d403f6d49e32882fd76
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2020-06-23 06:28:34 UTC 
Created libvncserver tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1849883]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1849882]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-06-30 17:20:35 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-20840
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