CVE-2026-7838CWE-190CWE-787

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

High · published July 1, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
2%
Percentile
79.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
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
EPSS
0.01869 · 79.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-07-01T03:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 JUL 03:33Z
    UltraVNC viewer heap buffer overflow via integer overflow in RFB connection-failure reason length
    cvelistv5