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Fedora 24: libvncserver Critical Memory Corruption Security Patch

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 24 package libvncserver received a critical security update addressing key vulnerabilities related to gnutls and ensuring compatibility with gtk-vnc.
Update to latest stable release, include fixes for gnutls and gtk-vnc compatibility.

Summary

LibVNCServer makes writing a VNC server (or more correctly, a program exporting

a frame-buffer via the Remote Frame Buffer protocol) easy.

It hides the programmer from the tedious task of managing clients and

compression schemata.

Update to latest stable release, include fixes for gnutls and gtk-vnc

compatibility.

[ 1 ] Bug #1410168 - CVE-2016-9942 libvncserver: Heap-based buffer overflow in ultra.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410168

[ 2 ] Bug #1410166 - CVE-2016-9941 libvncserver: Heap-based buffer overflow in rfbproto.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410166

su -c 'dnf upgrade libvncserver' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.9.11
Release: 2.fc24.1
Summary: Library to make writing a VNC server easy

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