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Fedora 24 Tigervnc Update 17-24-00 Critical: Memory Leak Risks

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 24 tigervnc update addresses a variety of security vulnerabilities, including potential memory corruption and integer overflow threats.
Security fix for CVE-2017-7392 CVE-2017-7393 CVE-2017-7394 CVE-2017-7395 CVE-2017-7396

Summary

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.

Security fix for CVE-2017-7392 CVE-2017-7393 CVE-2017-7394 CVE-2017-7395

CVE-2017-7396. Add systemd unit file for Xvnc.

[ 1 ] Bug #1438703 - CVE-2017-7396 tigervnc: SecurityServer and ClientServer memory leaks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438703

[ 2 ] Bug #1438701 - CVE-2017-7395 tigervnc: Integer overflow in SMsgReader::readClientCutText

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438701

[ 3 ] Bug #1438700 - CVE-2017-7394 tigervnc: Server crash via long usernames

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438700

[ 4 ] Bug #1438697 - CVE-2017-7393 tigervnc: Double free via crafted fences

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438697

[ 5 ] Bug #1438694 - CVE-2017-7392 tigervnc: SSecurityVeNCrypt memory leak

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438694

su -c 'dnf upgrade tigervnc' 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: 1.7.1
Release: 4.fc24
Summary: A TigerVNC remote display system

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