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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2: Important Tigervnc Update - High Risk Alert

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2023
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Keep informed about the critical tigervnc security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux that tackles vulnerabilities related to privilege escalation risks.
An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterp...

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 privilege escalation security fix important remote display tigervnc

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 AUS (v. 8.2):
Source: tigervnc-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: tigervnc-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: tigervnc-icons-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.noarch.rpm tigervnc-license-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.noarch.rpm tigervnc-server-applet-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: tigervnc-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: tigervnc-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-15.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0671-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0671
Issue date: 2023-02-08

Topic

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 TelecommunicationsUpdate Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAPSolutions.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 privilege escalation security fix important remote display tigervnc

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v. 8.2) - 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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