CVE-2026-7831CWE-193CWE-787

UltraVNC viewer off-by-one stack overflow in ServerInit desktop name parsing

High · published July 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00738 · 54.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-193 · Off-by-one Error; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-07-01T03:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 JUL 03:33Z
    UltraVNC viewer off-by-one stack overflow in ServerInit desktop name parsing
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