Fedora 25: tigervnc Security Update
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.
Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2017-7392 CVE-2017-7393 CVE-2017-7394 CVE-2017-7395 CVE-2017-7396.
Change Log
References
[ 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
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use 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