SciLinux SL7: SLSA-2017-2258-1 Moderate: gtk-vnc Remote Exploits

It was found that gtk-vnc lacked proper bounds checking while processing messages using RRE, hextile, or copyrect encodings. A remote malicious VNC server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the gtk-vnc library. (CVE-2017-5884) * An integer overflow flaw was found in gtk-vnc. A remote malicious VNC server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the [More...]

Synopsis:          Moderate: gtk-vnc security, bug fix, and enhancement 
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2017:2258-1
Issue Date:        2017-08-01
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2017-5884
                   CVE-2017-5885
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The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
gtk-vnc (0.7.0).

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that gtk-vnc lacked proper bounds checking while processing
messages using RRE, hextile, or copyrect encodings. A remote malicious VNC
server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the
gtk-vnc library. (CVE-2017-5884)

* An integer overflow flaw was found in gtk-vnc. A remote malicious VNC
server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the
gtk-vnc library. (CVE-2017-5885)
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SL7
  x86_64
    gtk-vnc-debuginfo-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gtk-vnc-debuginfo-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gtk-vnc2-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gtk-vnc2-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gvnc-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gvnc-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gtk-vnc-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gtk-vnc-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gtk-vnc-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gtk-vnc-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gtk-vnc-python-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gtk-vnc2-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gtk-vnc2-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gvnc-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gvnc-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gvnc-tools-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gvncpulse-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gvncpulse-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
    gvncpulse-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
    gvncpulse-devel-0.7.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team