Description
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the ZRLE decoder of GlavSoft TightVNC Viewer for Windows before 2.8.88 allows a malicious or compromised VNC server to read heap memory beyond the palette allocation and crash the viewer by sending ZRLE-encoded tiles whose palette indices exceed the declared palette size. readPaletteRleTile() and readPackedPaletteTile() use the attacker-supplied index to look up colours without validating it against the palette size; out-of-bounds heap data is copied into the framebuffer (garbled display) or the read faults, terminating the viewer.
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Remediation
Vendor Solution
Upgrade TightVNC for Windows to version 2.8.88 or later.
Vendor Workaround
Connect only to trusted VNC servers until the viewer is upgraded.
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History
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000
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| Description | An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the ZRLE decoder of GlavSoft TightVNC Viewer for Windows before 2.8.88 allows a malicious or compromised VNC server to read heap memory beyond the palette allocation and crash the viewer by sending ZRLE-encoded tiles whose palette indices exceed the declared palette size. readPaletteRleTile() and readPackedPaletteTile() use the attacker-supplied index to look up colours without validating it against the palette size; out-of-bounds heap data is copied into the framebuffer (garbled display) or the read faults, terminating the viewer. | |
| Title | Out-of-bounds read in TightVNC Viewer ZRLE palette decoding | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-125 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: securin
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-08T14:03:01.404Z
Reserved: 2026-10-08T13:23:07.677Z
Link: CVE-2026-107611
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