CVE-2018-7226 is a critical vulnerability affecting LinuxVNC and VNCommand from the LibVNC/vncterm distribution through version 0.9.10. It stems from missing sanitization of client-specified message lengths in the vcSetXCutTextProc() function, potentially leading to an integer overflow. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a severe risk with network-based exploitation requiring no user interaction and resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.9.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vncterm_project:vncterm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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