CVE-2026-7838 PUBLISHED

UltraVNC viewer heap buffer overflow via integer overflow in RFB connection-failure reason length

Assigner: securin
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 01.07.2026 Updated: 01.07.2026

UltraVNC viewer through 1.8.2.2 contains an integer overflow leading to a heap buffer overflow in the RFB protocol failure-response parsing path. In vncviewer/ClientConnection.cpp, the 4-byte network-supplied reasonLen field (type CARD32) is passed as reasonLen+1 to CheckBufferSize(). Because both operands are unsigned 32-bit, a reasonLen of 0xFFFFFFFF overflows to 0, causing CheckBufferSize to allocate only 256 bytes. The subsequent ReadString(m_netbuf, reasonLen) call then performs ReadExact for the original 4 GiB length into that 256-byte heap buffer. This overflow is reachable via rfbConnFailed (auth-scheme negotiation) and rfbVncAuthFailed (post-handshake) message types without successful authentication. A malicious VNC server, or any man-in-the-middle on the RFB stream, can trigger this condition when the victim viewer connects, potentially resulting in remote code execution as the user running the viewer. The crash was confirmed with AddressSanitizer on a portable reproduction harness (heap-buffer-overflow WRITE at offset 256).

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor uvnc
Product UltraVNC
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.8.2.2 (incl.)

Credits

  • Arjun Basnet, Securin (arjun.basnet@securin.io) finder

References

Problem Types

  • Integer Overflow or Wraparound CWE
  • Out-of-bounds Write CWE