Description
UltraVNC viewer through 1.8.2.2 contains an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in the RFB ServerInit message handler. In vncviewer/ClientConnection.cpp, when the server-supplied nameLength equals exactly 2024 the code declares a 2024-byte stack buffer _dn[2024] and calls ReadString(_dn, 2024). ReadString writes the NUL terminator at buf[length], i.e., _dn[2024], one byte past the end of the stack buffer. A malicious VNC server can trigger this condition by advertising a desktop name of length 2024 in its ServerInit message. On release builds without stack canaries the single-byte NUL overwrite adjacent stack data. On builds with /GS stack protection the canary is corrupted and the process terminates, resulting in denial of service. User interaction (connecting the viewer to the malicious server) is required.
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| uvnc | UltraVNC | unaffected |
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References
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| https://github.com/ultravnc/UltraVNC |
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| https://uvnc.com/ |
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History
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:00:00 +0000
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| Description | UltraVNC viewer through 1.8.2.2 contains an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in the RFB ServerInit message handler. In vncviewer/ClientConnection.cpp, when the server-supplied nameLength equals exactly 2024 the code declares a 2024-byte stack buffer _dn[2024] and calls ReadString(_dn, 2024). ReadString writes the NUL terminator at buf[length], i.e., _dn[2024], one byte past the end of the stack buffer. A malicious VNC server can trigger this condition by advertising a desktop name of length 2024 in its ServerInit message. On release builds without stack canaries the single-byte NUL overwrite adjacent stack data. On builds with /GS stack protection the canary is corrupted and the process terminates, resulting in denial of service. User interaction (connecting the viewer to the malicious server) is required. | |
| Title | UltraVNC viewer off-by-one stack overflow in ServerInit desktop name parsing | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-193 CWE-787 |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: securin
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-01T03:33:25.314Z
Reserved: 2026-05-05T04:03:22.622Z
Link: CVE-2026-7831
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