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Red Hat 8.1 RHSA-2023:0665-01 Important Tigervnc Security Patch

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2023
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A significant patch for tigervnc on CentOS has been released addressing potential escalated privileges.
An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows users to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients.
Security Fix(es):
* xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation (CVE-2023-0494)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important fix remote display tigervnc privilege elevation CVE-2023-0494

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0494 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.src.rpm
aarch64: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: tigervnc-icons-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm tigervnc-license-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm tigervnc-server-applet-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0665-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0665
Issue date: 2023-02-08

Topic

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Update Services for SAP Solutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important fix remote display tigervnc privilege elevation CVE-2023-0494

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2165995 - CVE-2023-0494 xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation

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