High
Security advisory
A divide by zero issue was found to occur in libvncserver-0.9.12. A malicious client could use this flaw to send a specially crafted message that, when processed by the VNC server, would lead to a floating point exception, resulting in a denial of service.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25708
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A divide by zero issue was found to occur in libvncserver-0.9.12. A malicious client could use this flaw to send a specially crafted message that, when processed by the VNC server, would lead to a floating point exception, resulting in a denial of service.
osv:CVE-2020-25708
Complete source record
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