Fedora 38 FEDORA-2023-dbacf5d9f6 Moderate: Tigervnc Out-of-Bounds Fix
fedora
November 13, 2023
Fixes CVEs reported against Xserver.
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:
Fixes CVEs reported against Xserver.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Thu Nov 2 2023 Jan Grulich
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2247468 - CVE-2023-5367 tigervnc: xorg-x11-server: Out-of-bounds write in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247468
[ 2 ] Bug #2247469 - CVE-2023-5380 tigervnc: xorg-x11-server: Use-after-free bug in DestroyWindow [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247469
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-dbacf5d9f6' 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: tigervnc
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 1.13.1
Release: 6.fc38
Summary: A TigerVNC remote display system
Topics Covered
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