CVE-2008-5660

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 9.1%

exploitation probability

9.1%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Format string vulnerability in the vinagre_utils_show_error function (src/vinagre-utils.c) in Vinagre 0.5.x before 0.5.2 and 2.x before 2.24.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a crafted URI or VNC server response.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7401

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475070 http://secunia.com/advisories/33041 http://secunia.com/advisories/33046 http://secunia.com/advisories/33082 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7401 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00473.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00485.html http://www.coresecurity.com/content/vinagre-format-string http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:240 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499057/100/0/threaded http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-689-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3362