CVE-2017-7396 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Tigervnc

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
TigervncDebian Tigervnc
Timeline
PublishedApr 1
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In TigerVNC 1.7.1 (CConnection.cxx CConnection::CConnection), an unauthenticated client can cause a small memory leak in the server.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/tigervnc< tigervnc 1.7.0+dfsg-7 (bookworm)
▶Debiantigervnc/tigervnc< 1.7.0+dfsg-7+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f765-cqm7-pp4c: In TigerVNC 1↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-7396: In TigerVNC 1↗2017-04-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
tigervnc: SecurityServer and ClientServer memory leaks↗2017-03-27
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Debian
CVE-2017-7396: tigervnc - In TigerVNC 1.7.1 (CConnection.cxx CConnection::CConnection), an unauthenticated...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7392 CVE-2017-7393 CVE-2017-7394 CVE-2017-7395 CVE-2017-7396 tigervnc: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-04-04
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7396 tigervnc: SecurityServer and ClientServer memory leaks↗2017-04-04
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CVE-2017-7396 — Debian Tigervnc vulnerability | cvebase