Description
UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized string to the VNC Server input field. Attackers can paste a malicious string containing 256 repeated characters into the VNC Server field and click Connect to trigger a buffer overflow that crashes the viewer.
Problem types
Product status
Credits
Victor Mondragón
References
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46702 (ExploitDB-46702)
www.uvnc.com/ (Official Product Homepage)
www.uvnc.com/...ads/ultravnc/126-download-ultravnc-1224.html (Product Reference)
www.vulncheck.com/...r-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow (VulnCheck Advisory: UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow)