CVE-2016-10207 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-10207?

CVE-2016-10207 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 28 Feb 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Xvnc server in TigerVNC allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) by terminating a TLS handshake early.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10207?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Tigervnc Tigervnc.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10207?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-10207 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10207 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10207, GHSA-xv2c-qf7g-w8gj.