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Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0070 Critical: Libvncserver Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
A significant security patch for libvncserver resolves a major heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability impacting Mageia 6 systems.
LibVNC through 0.9.12 contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in libvncserver/rfbserver.c (CVE-2018-20750)

Summary

LibVNC through 0.9.12 contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in libvncserver/rfbserver.c (CVE-2018-20750).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24281

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3877-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20750

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/libvncserver-0.9.12-1.1.mga6

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Publication date: 13 Feb 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0070.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-20750

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