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CVE-2011-0904 json

The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.…

published 2011-05-10 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-0916

cvss
3.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when raw encoding is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large (1) X position or (2) Y position value in a framebuffer update request that triggers an out-of-bounds memory access, related to the rfbTranslateNone and rfbSendRectEncodingRaw functions.

Patch / fix

  • vino Debian 12 2.28.2-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-0904

  • vino RHEL 6 2.28.1-8.el6_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0169

  • vino openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.22.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10047-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-0904 updated cvss 3.5

vino: Out of bounds read flaw by processing certain client raw encoding framebuffer update requests

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 vino, kdenetwork Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 vino, kdenetwork
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) vino 2.28.1-8.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) vino 2.28.1-8.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) vino 2.28.1-8.el6_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0169
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kdenetwork, libvncserver, kdenetwork-libs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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