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Gentoo: 200903-17 Normal: Real VNC Client Arbitrary Code Risk

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The FreeBSD Security Advisory SA-08:12 highlights a potential vulnerability in the OpenSSH software, which could allow unauthorized access to systems.
The Real VNC client is vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code when connecting to a malicious server.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Real VNC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: March 09, 2009 Bugs: #255225 ID: 200903-17

Synopsis ======= The Real VNC client is vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code when connecting to a malicious server.
Background ========= Real VNC is a remote desktop viewer display system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/vnc < 4.1.3 >= 4.1.3
========== An unspecified vulnerability has been discovered int the CMsgReader::readRect() function in the VNC Viewer component, related to the encoding type of RFB protocol data.
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