Gentoo: GLSA-202309-18 High: LibVNCServer Authentication Risk
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August 4, 2006
VNC servers created with LibVNCServer accept insecure protocol types, even when the server does not offer it, resulting in unauthorized access to the server
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-05
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: LibVNCServer: Authentication bypass
Date: August 04, 2006
Bugs: #136916
ID: 200608-05
Synopsis
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VNC servers created with LibVNCServer accept insecure protocol types,
even when the server does not offer it, resulting in unauthorized
access to the server.
Background
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LibVNCServer is a GPL'ed library for creating VNC servers.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-libs/libvncserver < 0.8.2 >= 0.8.2
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LibVNCServer fails to properly validate protocol types effectively
letting users decide what protocol to use, such as "Type 1 - No...
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