Critical
Security advisory
It was discovered that websockets.c in LibVNCServer prior to 0.9.12 did not properly decode certain WebSocket frames. A malicious attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted WebSocket frames to a server, causing a heap-based buffer overflow.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-18922
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was discovered that websockets.c in LibVNCServer prior to 0.9.12 did not properly decode certain WebSocket frames. A malicious attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted WebSocket frames to a server, causing a heap-based buffer overflow.
osv:CVE-2017-18922
Complete source record
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