Findings

CVE-2019-25600

UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized string to the VNC Server input field.

Published Mar 22, 2026 · updated Jun 17, 2026

UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized string to the VNC Server input field. Attackers can paste a malicious string containing 256 repeated characters into the VNC Server field and click Connect to trigger a buffer overflow that crashes the viewer.

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  1. Mar 22, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized string to the VNC Server input field. Attackers can paste a malicious string containing 256 repeated characters into the VNC Server field and click Connect to trigger a buffer overflow that crashes the viewer.

  2. Jun 17, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized string to the VNC Server input field. Attackers can paste a malicious string containing 256 repeated characters into the VNC Server field and click Connect to trigger a buffer overflow that crashes the viewer.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2019-25600

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2019-25600

    UltraVNC Viewer 1.2.2.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized string to the VNC Server input field. Attackers can paste a malicious string containing 256 repeated characters into the VNC Server field an

    nvd.nist.gov

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