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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-14399

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. Byte-aligned data is accessed through uint32_t pointers in libvncclient/rfbproto.c. NOTE: there is reportedly "no trust boundary crossed.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-14399

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Jun 2020, 16:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. Byte-aligned data is accessed through uint32_t pointers in libvncclient/rfbproto.c. NOTE: there is reportedly "no trust boundary crossed.

osv:CVE-2020-14399
Complete source record
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