Description: fix denial of service via large ClientCutText message Origin: backport, https://github.com/newsoft/libvncserver/commit/6037a9074d52b1963c97cb28ea1096c7c14cbf28 Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias Index: libvncserver-0.9.9+dfsg/libvncserver/rfbserver.c =================================================================== --- libvncserver-0.9.9+dfsg.orig/libvncserver/rfbserver.c 2012-05-04 10:19:00.000000000 -0400 +++ libvncserver-0.9.9+dfsg/libvncserver/rfbserver.c 2014-09-25 11:12:36.124058413 -0400 @@ -2457,6 +2457,11 @@ msg.cct.length = Swap32IfLE(msg.cct.length); str = (char *)malloc(msg.cct.length); + if (str == NULL) { + rfbLogPerror("rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: not enough memory"); + rfbCloseClient(cl); + return; + } if ((n = rfbReadExact(cl, str, msg.cct.length)) <= 0) { if (n != 0)