Race Condition in Guacamole Terminal Emulator Affects Apache Software
CVE-2017-3158

8.1HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Apache
Status
Apache Guacamole
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 January 2018

What is CVE-2017-3158?

The vulnerability in the terminal emulator of Apache Guacamole due to a race condition allows for overlapping writes of printed data blocks. This mismanagement can cause packet length misreads, leading to data exceeding the bounds of a statically-allocated buffer, potentially allowing for unintended behaviors and data corruption in the system.

Affected Version(s)

Apache Guacamole Apache Guacamole 0.9.5 to 0.9.10-incubating

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b218d36bfdaf655d2738...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.1
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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