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Fedora 36 - 2023-c41e8f24bb Moderate: Tigervnc Use-After-Free Elevation

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tigervnc 1.13.1 for Fedora 36 resolves CVE-2023-0494, which could allow privilege escalation due to use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Tigervnc 1.13.1 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.

Tigervnc 1.13.1 update. CVE-2023-0494 tigervnc: xorg-x11-server:

DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation

* Wed Mar 1 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.13.1-1

- 1.13.1

* Tue Feb 21 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.13.0-3

- vncsession: allow to create .vnc directory

* Wed Feb 15 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.13.0-2

- Backport: Sanity check when cleaning up keymap changes

* Tue Feb 7 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.13.0-1

- 1.13.0

- CVE-2023-0494

* Tue Jan 31 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.12.0-9

- migrated to SPDX license

* Sat Jan 21 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.12.0-8

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild

* Sat Jul 23 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.12.0-7

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #2165995 - CVE-2023-0494 xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165995

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-c41e8f24bb' 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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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 36
Version: 1.13.1
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: A TigerVNC remote display system

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