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medium 6.8

CVE-2008-5660 json

Format string vulnerability in the vinagre_utils_show_error function (src/vinagre-utils.c) in Vinagre 0.5.x before 0.5.2 and 2.x before 2.2…

published 2008-12-17 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5631

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.1%
EPSS 9.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Format string vulnerability in the vinagre_utils_show_error function (src/vinagre-utils.c) in Vinagre 0.5.x before 0.5.2 and 2.x before 2.24.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a crafted URI or VNC server response.

Patch / fix

  • vinagre Debian 12 0.5.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5660

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5660 updated

vinagre: format string flaw in vinagre_utils_show_error()

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-7401)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

9.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-7401 Vinagre < 2.24.2 - 'show_error()' Remote Format String (PoC) dos, 2008-12-09
  • coresecurity.com http://www.coresecurity.com/content/vinagre-format-string referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

Sources

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