Fedora 10: 2009-0991 Critical: Update VNC to 4.1.3 DoS Threat

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which

allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the

machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and

from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a

client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC

server.

Update to 4.1.3 maintenance release which contains fix for CVE-2008-4770

* Mon Jan 26 2009 Adam Tkac 4.1.3-1

- updated to 4.1.3 (CVE-2008-4770)

[ 1 ] Bug #480590 - CVE-2008-4770 vnc: vncviewer insufficient encoding value validation in CMsgReader::readRect

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480590

su -c 'yum update vnc' at the command line.

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