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Fedora 37: tigervnc 1.13.0 Critical Update for CVE-2023-0494

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The recent release of Tigervnc 1.13.0 resolves CVE-2023-0494, effectively preventing potential privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Fedora 37.
Tigervnc 1.13.0 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 1.13.0 update. CVE-2023-0494 tigervnc: xorg-x11-server:

DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation

* 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

[ 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-2023-4d443bd03f' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 37
Version: 1.13.0
Release: 1.fc37
Summary: A TigerVNC remote display system

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