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Medium ALAS2-2018-1012 1 CVE

Moderate: libvncserver security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 10, 2018 · Updated May 10, 2018

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-7225: An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer through 0.9.11. rfbProcessClientNormalMessage() in rfbserver.c does not sanitize msg.cct.length, leading to access to uninitialized and potentially sensitive data or possibly unspecified other impact (e.g., an integer overflow) via specially crafted VNC packets. 1546858: CVE-2018-7225 libvncserver: Improper input sanitization in rfbProcessClientNormalMessage in rfbserver.c

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libvncserver 0:0.9.9-12.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvncserver-debuginfo 0:0.9.9-12.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvncserver-devel 0:0.9.9-12.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-7225.html