Description: CVE-2018-20022 multiple weaknesses CWE-665: Improper Initialization vulnerability in VNC client code that allows attacker to read stack memory and can be abuse for information disclosure. Combined with another vulnerability, it can be used to leak stack memory layout and in bypassing ASLR --- Author: Abhijith PA Origin: https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/commit/2f5b2ad1c6c99b1ac6482c95844a84d66bb52838 Bug: https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/issues/252 Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/916941 Last-Update: 2018-12-23 --- a/vnc_unixsrc/vncviewer/rfbproto.c +++ b/vnc_unixsrc/vncviewer/rfbproto.c @@ -2447,6 +2447,7 @@ } } + memset(&ke, 0, sizeof(ke)); ke.type = rfbKeyEvent; ke.down = down ? 1 : 0; ke.key = Swap32IfLE(key); @@ -2480,6 +2481,7 @@ return True; } + memset(&cct, 0, sizeof(cct)); cct.type = rfbClientCutText; cct.length = Swap32IfLE((unsigned int) len); currentMsg = rfbClientCutText;