Gentoo: 200302-15 Moderate: TightVNC Insecure Auth Remote Exploit
gentoo
February 24, 2003
The VNC server acts as an X server, but the script for starting itgenerates an MIT X cookie (which is used for X authentication) withoutusing a strong enough random number generato...
Summary
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-15
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FIXED VERSION : 1.2.8
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From Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2003:041-12:
"The VNC server acts as an X server, but the script for starting it
generates an MIT X cookie (which is used for X authentication) without
using a strong enough random number generator. This could allow an
attacker to be able to more easily guess the authentication cookie."
Read the full advisory at:
https://sso.redhat.com/auth/realms/redhat-external/protocol/saml
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-misc/tightvnc upgrade to tightvnc-1.2.8 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge -u tightvnc
emerge clean
...Read the Full Advisory
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PACKAGE : tightvnc
SUMMARY : insecure cookie generation
DATE : 2003-02-24 11:34 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <1.2.8
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