CVE•Published 2017-02-28•Modified 2026-05-13•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2017-5884Fedoraproject · Fedora

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-118Incorrect Access of Indexable Resource ('Range Error')

Description

gtk-vnc before 0.7.0 does not properly check boundaries of subrectangle-containing tiles, which allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via the src x, y coordinates in a crafted (1) rre, (2) hextile, or (3) copyrect tile.

Timeline

Published 2017-02-28

Modified 2026-05-13

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common). Live host counts are a Premium feature.

Shodan · vuln tag

vuln:CVE-2017-5884

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · OS

os:"Fedora"

Hosts Shodan identified as running Fedora.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2017-5884

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2017-5884