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Ubuntu 21.04 USN-2023-1023-02 Critical: Gnomeshell Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The advisory from Red Hat regarding the crucial TigerVNC security enhancement underscores the significance and CVSS rating associated with vulnerabilities affecting remote access.
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: 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 remote access important Red Hat Enterprise local escalation 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 E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.src.rpm
aarch64: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm
noarch: tigervnc-icons-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.noarch.rpm tigervnc-license-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.noarch.rpm tigervnc-server-applet-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-debugsource-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: tigervnc-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm tigervnc-debuginfo-1.9.0-16.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1600-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1600
Issue date: 2023-04-04

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation remote access important Red Hat Enterprise local escalation tigervnc

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - 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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