Gentoo: GLSA-200608-12 Critical Alert Regarding x11vnc Security Issue

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: x11vnc: Authentication bypass in included LibVNCServer code Date: August 07, 2006 Bugs: #142559 ID: 200608-12

Synopsis ======= VNC servers created with x11vnc accept insecure protocol types, even when the server does not offer it, resulting in the possibility of unauthorized access to the server.
Background ========= x11vnc provides VNC servers for X displays.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-misc/x11vnc < 0.8.1 >= 0.8.1
========== x11vnc includes vulnerable LibVNCServer code, which fails to properly validate protocol types effectively le...