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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-42859 EUVD-2026-29167

Neat VNC: Buffer overflow due to oversized RSA public keys

Published May 11, 2026 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Neat VNC is a VNC server library. Prior to 0.9.6, a pre-authentication stack buffer overflow exists in neatvnc in the RSA-AES security type handler. An unauthenticated remote attacker who can reach the VNC listening socket can send a crafted security type 5 (RSA-AES) or security type 129 (RSA-AES-256) handshake with an oversized client RSA public key, causing rsa_aes_send_challenge in src/auth/rsa-aes.c to overflow a 1024-byte on-stack buffer when encrypting the server challenge. This results in at least a denial of service via server crash. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
any1 neatvnc < 0.9.6 —

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
Debian 14 neatvnc 0.9.1+dfsg-1.1 —
Debian 13 neatvnc No fix yet —
Debian 12 neatvnc No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 neatvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS neatvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 neatvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS neatvnc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS neatvnc No fix yet —

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