CVE-2026-7831
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.6 High
- Status
- Modified - 33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c
- Published
- 2026-07-01
- Last modified
- 2026-10-25
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193, CWE-787
Affected products
References
- https://uvnc.com/
- https://github.com/ultravnc/UltraVNC
- https://www.securin.io/zero-days/cve-2026-7831-off-by-one-stack-overflow-viewer-namelength-ultravnc
