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Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0374 Moderate: noVNC HTML Injection

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2020-0384 releases updates for noVNC to address a cross-site scripting flaw impacting versions older than 0.6.2.
An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC before 0.6.2 in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the stat...

Summary

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC before 0.6.2 in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the status field, such as the VNC server name. (CVE-2017-18635)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27306

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4522-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18635

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory XSS remote access html injection novnc mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/novnc-0.5.1-2.1.mga7

Publication date: 27 Sep 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0374.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2017-18635

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Topics Covered

security advisory XSS remote access html injection novnc mageia

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