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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-c3739273e5 Critical: Gtk-Vnc Integer Overflow

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Patch release for mingw-gtk-vnc targeting CVE-2017-5884 and CVE-2017-5885 vulnerabilities on Fedora 25.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5884, CVE-2017-5885

Summary

gtk-vnc is a VNC viewer widget for GTK. It is built using coroutines

allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2017-5884, CVE-2017-5885

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1418944 - CVE-2017-5884 gtk-vnc: Improper check of framebuffer boundaries when processing a tile https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418944 [ 2 ] Bug #1418952 - CVE-2017-5885 gtk-vnc: Integer overflow when processing SetColorMapEntries https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418952

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-gtk-vnc' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: mingw-gtk-vnc
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.7.0
Release: 1.fc25
URL: Summary : MinGW Windows port of VNC client GTK widget

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security advisory fedora critical threat integer overflow gtk-vnc framebuffer check

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