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Debian: DLA-2045-1 Critical: TightVNC Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
A recent TightVNC patch resolves several security flaws in release 1.3.9-6.5+deb8u1, aimed at improving both safety and performance.
Several vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in TightVNC 1.x, an X11 based VNC server/viewer application for Windows and Unix

Summary

CVE-2014-6053

The rfbProcessClientNormalMessage function in rfbserver.c in TightVNC
server did not properly handle attempts to send a large amount of
ClientCutText data, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (memory consumption or daemon crash) via a crafted message
that was processed by using a single unchecked malloc.

CVE-2018-7225

rfbProcessClientNormalMessage() in rfbserver.c did not sanitize
msg.cct.length, leading to access to uninitialized and potentially
sensitive data or possibly unspecified other impact (e.g., an integer
overflow) via specially crafted VNC packets.

CVE-2019-8287

TightVNC code contained global buffer overflow in HandleCoRREBBP
macro function, which could potentially have result in code
execution. This attack appeared to be exploitable via network
connectivity.

(aka CVE-2018-20020/libvncserver)

CVE-2018-20021

TightVNC in vncviewer/rfbproto.c contained a CWE-835: Infinite loop

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: tightvnc
Version: 1.3.9-6.5+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2014-6053 CVE-2018-7225 CVE-2019-8287 CVE-2018-20021
Debian Bug: 945364

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