Important: tigervnc security update

2024-01-3000:00:00

errata.almalinux.org

tigervnc

security fix

remote display

computing desktop

vnc servers

vnc clients

cve-2023-6816

cve-2024-0229

cve-2024-21885

heap buffer overflow

out-of-bounds memory access

devicehierarchyevent

disabledevice

cvss score

references

unix

9.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

53.4%

JSON

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: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer (CVE-2023-6816)
xorg-x11-server: reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2024-0229)
xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (CVE-2024-21885)
xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice (CVE-2024-21886)

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
almalinux9noarchtigervnc-license< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-license-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.noarch.rpm
almalinux9noarchtigervnc-icons< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-icons-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.noarch.rpm
almalinux9noarchtigervnc-selinux< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-selinux-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.noarch.rpm
almalinux9ppc64letigervnc-server< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-server-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux9ppc64letigervnc-server-module< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-server-module-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux9ppc64letigervnc-server-minimal< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-server-minimal-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux9ppc64letigervnc< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux9aarch64tigervnc< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.aarch64.rpm
almalinux9aarch64tigervnc-server< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-server-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.aarch64.rpm
almalinux9aarch64tigervnc-server-module< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1tigervnc-server-module-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.aarch64.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
almalinux	9	noarch	tigervnc-license	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-license-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.noarch.rpm
almalinux	9	noarch	tigervnc-icons	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-icons-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.noarch.rpm
almalinux	9	noarch	tigervnc-selinux	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-selinux-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.noarch.rpm
almalinux	9	ppc64le	tigervnc-server	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-server-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux	9	ppc64le	tigervnc-server-module	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-server-module-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux	9	ppc64le	tigervnc-server-minimal	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-server-minimal-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux	9	ppc64le	tigervnc	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.ppc64le.rpm
almalinux	9	aarch64	tigervnc	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.aarch64.rpm
almalinux	9	aarch64	tigervnc-server	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-server-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.aarch64.rpm
almalinux	9	aarch64	tigervnc-server-module	< 1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1	tigervnc-server-module-1.13.1-3.el9_3.6.alma.1.aarch64.rpm