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openSUSE Leap 15.2: openSUSE-SU-2020:1666-1 Critical tigervnc Server Risk

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important patch for tigervnc resolves a vulnerability related to server impersonation affecting openSUSE Leap 15.2.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for tigervnc fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-26117: Server certificates were stored as certiticate

authorities, allowing malicious owners of these certificates to

impersonate any server after a client had added an exception

(bsc#1176733)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical openSUSE tigervnc server impersonation

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1666=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

tigervnc-x11vnc-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

xorg-x11-Xvnc-java-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

xorg-x11-Xvnc-novnc-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libXvnc-devel-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

libXvnc1-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

libXvnc1-debuginfo-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

tigervnc-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

tigervnc-debugsource-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

xorg-x11-Xvnc-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

xorg-x11-Xvnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

xorg-x11-Xvnc-module-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

xorg-x11-Xvnc-module-debuginfo-1.9.0-lp152.7.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26117.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176733

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1666-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical openSUSE tigervnc server impersonation

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