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Debian 8 Jessie: DLA-2264-1 Critical LibVNCServer Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance the libvncserver package for Debian 8 Jessie to resolve several security concerns, targeting severe vulnerabilities.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libVNC (libvncserver Debian package), an implemenantation of the VNC server and client protocol

Summary

CVE-2019-20839

libvncclient/sockets.c in LibVNCServer had a buffer overflow via a
long socket filename.

CVE-2020-14397

libvncserver/rfbregion.c had a NULL pointer dereference.

CVE-2020-14399

Byte-aligned data was accessed through uint32_t pointers in
libvncclient/rfbproto.c.

CVE-2020-14400

Byte-aligned data was accessed through uint16_t pointers in
libvncserver/translate.c.

CVE-2020-14401

libvncserver/scale.c had a pixel_value integer overflow.

CVE-2020-14402

libvncserver/corre.c allowed out-of-bounds access via encodings.

CVE-2020-14403

libvncserver/hextile.c allowed out-of-bounds access via encodings.

CVE-2020-14404

libvncserver/rre.c allowed out-of-bounds access via encodings.

CVE-2020-14405

libvncclient/rfbproto.c does not limit TextChat size.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
0.9.9+dfsg2-6.1+deb8u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvncserver packages.

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: libvncserver
Version: 0.9.9+dfsg2-6.1+deb8u8
CVE ID: CVE-2019-20839 CVE-2020-14397 CVE-2020-14399 CVE-2020-14400
Debian Bug:

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