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Red Hat 9.0: RHSA-2023-1599-01 Critical: tigervnc Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest release of tigervnc for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 brings significant updates. Enhance your system's safety by upgrading today.
An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support

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: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2023-1393)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important remote display tigervnc

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1393 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0):
Source: tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.src.rpm
aarch64: tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm
noarch: tigervnc-icons-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.noarch.rpm tigervnc-license-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.noarch.rpm tigervnc-selinux-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.2.s390x.rpm

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Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1599-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1599
Issue date: 2023-04-04

Topic

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0Extended Update Support.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important remote display tigervnc

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2180288 - CVE-2023-1393 xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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