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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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade TightVNC for Windows to version 2.8.88 or later.


Workaround

Connect only to trusted VNC servers until the viewer is upgraded.

History

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: securin

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-08T14:03:01.404Z

Reserved: 2026-10-08T13:23:07.677Z

Link: CVE-2026-107611

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-08T14:02:57.754Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-08T14:16:49.727

Modified: 2026-10-08T15:17:45.440

Link: CVE-2026-107611

cve-icon Redhat

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