CVE-2016-9941

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

3.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 89.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-12-31 18:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 03:07Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-12-13

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

0d066d22203645f38d4fd41e67e1f1c908adb6097e2530ed4f9dfc89a037b7ca

• www.securityfocus.com95170http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95170vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• github.comhttps://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/pull/137x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.debian.orgDSA-3753http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3753vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-24https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-24vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• github.comhttps://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/releases/tag/LibVNCServer-0.9.11x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20191030 [SECURITY] [DLA 1979-1] italc security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00042.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4587-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4587-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU