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Fedora 38: 2023-ec02e360af Critical Tigervnc Security Flaws

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent release of Tigervnc in Fedora 38 addresses several severe security flaws. To improve both safety and system efficiency, ensure your software is up to date.
CVE fix for: CVE-2023-6377, CVE-2023-6478

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:

CVE fix for: CVE-2023-6377, CVE-2023-6478

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora remote access patch Tigervnc

Change Log

* Wed Dec 13 2023 Jan Grulich - 1.13.1-9 - Rebuild for Xorg CVEs Fixes: CVE-2023-6377, CVE-2023-6478 * Wed Nov 22 2023 Florian Weimer - 1.13.1-8 - Drop incorrect tigervnc-c99-2.patch. * Wed Nov 22 2023 Florian Weimer - 1.13.1-7 - C compatibility fixes

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2023-ec02e360af 2024-01-11 02:15:43.703651 Name : tigervnc Product : Fedora 38 Version : 1.13.1 Release : 9.fc38 URL : https://tigervnc.org/ Summary : A TigerVNC remote display system Description : 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 Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-ec02e360af' 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: 9.fc38
URL: https://tigervnc.org/
Summary: A TigerVNC remote display system

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora remote access patch Tigervnc

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