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Unscored CVE-2026-128321 EUVD-2026-124808GHSA-2v2r-xq5w-26rm

Tight JPEG decoding in TightVNC and UltraVNC viewers contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Assigned by certcc

Description

Tight JPEG decoding in TightVNC and UltraVNC viewers contains a heap-based buffer overflow because an attacker-controlled framebuffer rectangle width is not validated against a fixed-size decoding buffer. A malicious VNC server can cause an out-of-bounds heap write when a user connects, resulting in application crash and potentially other memory-corruption impacts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
UltraVNC UltraVNC 1.8.2.4 – ≤ 1.8.2.6 —
Glavsoft (TightVNC) TightVNC 1.3.10 – ≤ 1.3.10 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 tightvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS tightvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS tightvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS tightvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS tightvnc No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS tightvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS tightvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS tightvnc No fix yet —

Advisories 1

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