Security advisory

{
  "id": "1ceb75644a6d0d38ab995361983e7f91d37799bd8875e0cd37501f84645ff957",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5884",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-5884",
    "summary": "gtk-vnc before 0.7.0 does not properly check boundaries of subrectangle-containing tiles, which allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via the src x, y coordinates in a crafted (1) rre, (2) hextile, or (3) copyrect tile.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-5884",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-5884",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-5884"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/gtk-vnc",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b6d847c5e207d90a7145a5337b4a782350ad73cb"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gtk-vnc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.6.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.6.0",
            "v0.5.4",
            "v0.5.3",
            "v0.5.2",
            "v0.5.1",
            "v0.5.0",
            "v0.4.4",
            "v0.4.3",
            "release-0.4.3",
            "v0.4.2",
            "release-0.4.2",
            "v0.4.1",
            "release-0.4.1",
            "v0.4.0",
            "release-0.4.0",
            "v0.3.10",
            "release-0.3.10",
            "v0.3.9",
            "release-0.3.9",
            "v0.3.8",
            "release-0.3.8",
            "v0.3.7",
            "release-0.3.7",
            "v0.3.6",
            "release-0.3.6",
            "v0.3.5",
            "release-0.3.5",
            "v0.3.4",
            "release-0.3.4",
            "v0.3.3",
            "release-0.3.3",
            "v0.3.2",
            "release-0.3.2",
            "release-0.3.2-rc0",
            "v0.3.1",
            "release-0.3.1",
            "v0.3.0",
            "release-0.3.0",
            "v0.2.0",
            "release-0.2.0",
            "v0.1.0",
            "release-0.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5884.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:36.597532471Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LGPQ5MQR6SN4DYTEFACHP2PP5RR26KYK/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2258",
        "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778048",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk-vnc/commit/?id=ea0386933214c9178aaea9f2f85049ea3fa3e14a"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "25"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "25"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-5884",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434019,
  "published_at": "2017-02-28T18:59:00.407+00:00"
}