Enhanced ComparingUpdateTracker to crop changed blocks
64x64 changed block can be large for fine changes such as cursor
movement and typing in terminal windows, or an update to a clock.
If the block can be efficiently cropped, this will reduce latency
and bandwidth. Every pixel cropped is a pixel less to analyze, encode,
transmit, and decode.
The previous code already detected the top of the change in order
to determine if the block had changed. However, it did not use
this information to reduce the size of the change rectangle, nor
did it calculate any of the other edges.
The new code introduces detection of the other edges, and uses
the information to build a reduced area change rectangle. This
has the additional effect of reducing the number of discrete pixel
values in the change block which may allow a more efficient
encoding algorithm to be selected.
As this section of code is performance sensitive, the method
of detecting the edges has been optimized to quickly fall back
to pessimistic values as soon as a single comparison fails on
each edge. In the case that full 64x64 block are changing,
there will be three extra comparisons per block.
In cases where the change rectangle can be reduced from 64x64,
the reduced size of the change rectangle represents reduced
effort to encode, transfer, and decode the contained pixels.
In the case of images with high frequency changes, which
specifically includes text, the lossy JPEG encoding can be
highly distorted, especially with JPEG level 6 or less. The
quick flash from a distorted JPEG to a lossless JPEG can
appear as a flickering to some people. This effect was more
obvious when the surrounding area is not expected to change,
but is being distorted anyways due to being part of the 64x64
blocking algorithm.
In the case of a user typing in a terminal window, this change
may commonly reduce the number of pixels updated with every
character typed from 4096 pixels (64x64) to 640 pixels (32x20)
or less.
If using SSecurityPlain and the user specifies an empty username
and password, it will invoke InStream::checkNoWait(0) which will
cause a division by zero when calculating the number of available
items.
Enhance InStream::check() to behave properly when asked for
zero items, or zero sized items.
Add comments to InStream::check(), InStream::checkNoWait(),
and InStream::readBytes() to document expected behaviour
when requested to check or read zero items, or an item with
zero size.
Created a new subclass of Exception called GAIException() that will
handle error messages from getaddrinfo() instead of letting Exception()
handle it. GAIException() will make use of gai_strerror() to map the
error code to text. On Windows, gai_strerrorW() must be used if the text
is encoded with UTF-8.
Make system error messeges in Windows 10 use UTF-8
The previous error messages did not support Unicode characters. This
commit will use UTF-8 encoding to be able to display error messages in
every language.
There might be more bytes left in the current TLS record, even if
there is nothing on the underlying stream. Make sure we properly
return this when we aren't being requested to block.
Our fast paths assume that each channel fits in to a separate byte.
That means the shift needs to be a multiple of 8. Start actually
checking this so that a client cannot trip us up and possibly cause
incorrect code exection.
Issue found by Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky Lab.
We use a lot of lengths given to us over the network, so be more
paranoid about them causing an overflow as otherwise an attacker
might trick us in to overwriting other memory.
This primarily affects the client which often gets lengths from the
server, but there are also some scenarios where the server might
theoretically be vulnerable.
Issue found by Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky Lab.
Provides safety against them accidentally becoming negative because
of bugs in the calculations.
Also does the same to CharArray and friends as they were strongly
connection to the stream objects.
Otherwise we might be tricked in to reading and writing things at
incorrect offsets for pixels which ultimately could result in an
attacker writing things to the stack or heap and executing things
they shouldn't.
This only affects the server as the client never uses the pixel
format suggested by th server.
Issue found by Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky Lab.
We always assumed there would be one pixel per row so a rect with
a zero width would result in us writing to unknown memory.
This could theoretically be used by a malicious server to inject
code in to the viewer process.
Issue found by Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky Lab.
We do a lot of calculations based on pixel coordinates and we need
to make sure they do not overflow. Restrict the maximum dimensions
we support rather than try to switch over all calculations to use
64 bit integers.
This prevents attackers from from injecting code by specifying a
huge framebuffer size and relying on the values overflowing to
access invalid areas of the heap.
This primarily affects the client which gets both the screen
dimensions and the pixel contents from the remote side. But the
server might also be affected as a client can adjust the screen
dimensions, as can applications inside the session.
Issue found by Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky Lab.
Don't allow subclasses to just override dimensions or buffer details
directly and instead force them to go via methods. This allows us
to do sanity checks on the new values and catch bugs and attacks.
Move the checks around to avoid missing cases where we might access
memory that is no longer valid. Also avoid touching the underlying
stream implicitly (e.g. via the destructor) as it might also no
longer be valid.
A malicious server could theoretically use this for remote code
execution in the client.
Issue found by Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky Lab
We need to check the buffer length before accessing the incoming
string. Probably not a problem in practice as there should be a
final null in most incoming strings.
Issue found by Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky Lab.
Implements support in both client and server for the extended
clipboard format first seen in UltraVNC. Currently only implements
text handling, but that is still an improvement as it extends the
clipboard from ISO 8859-1 to full Unicode.
We now filter incoming data, which means we can start assuming the
clipboard data is always null terminated. This allows us to clean
up a lot of the internal handling.
This is required by the protocol so we should make sure it is
enforced. We are tolerant of clients that violate this though and
convert incoming clipboard data.