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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-b87fd3a628 Critical: Tigervnc Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Fedora patch for tigervnc tackles the CVE-2023-1393 vulnerability, which could lead to local privilege escalation, enhancing the overall security of the system.
Fixes CVE-2023-1393: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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.

Fixes CVE-2023-1393: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege

Escalation Vulnerability

* Thu Mar 30 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.13.1-3

- Drop BR: xorg-x11-font-utils

CVE-2023-1393

* Thu Mar 30 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.13.1-2

- Rebuild (xorg-x11-server)

CVE-2023-1393

[ 1 ] Bug #2180288 - CVE-2023-1393 xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180288

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-b87fd3a628' 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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Product: Fedora 38
Version: 1.13.1
Release: 3.fc38
Summary: A TigerVNC remote display system

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