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openSUSE Leap 15.2: openSUSE-SU-2020:2025-1 Important: LibVNCServer DoS

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent update of LibVNCServer addresses a significant security vulnerability in openSUSE Leap 15.2, aimed at mitigating the risk of potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for LibVNCServer fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-25708 [bsc#1178682], libvncserver/rfbserver.c has a divide by

zero which could result in DoS

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

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-2020-2025=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

LibVNCServer-debugsource-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1

LibVNCServer-devel-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1

libvncclient0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1

libvncclient0-debuginfo-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1

libvncserver0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1

libvncserver0-debuginfo-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25708.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178682

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2025-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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