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High ALSA-2023:1551 1 CVE

Important: tigervnc security update

Published Apr 4, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

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.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 tigervnc 1.12.0-9.el8_7.3
AlmaLinux · 8 tigervnc-icons 1.12.0-9.el8_7.3
AlmaLinux · 8 tigervnc-license 1.12.0-9.el8_7.3
AlmaLinux · 8 tigervnc-selinux 1.12.0-9.el8_7.3
AlmaLinux · 8 tigervnc-server 1.12.0-9.el8_7.3
AlmaLinux · 8 tigervnc-server-minimal 1.12.0-9.el8_7.3
AlmaLinux · 8 tigervnc-server-module 1.12.0-9.el8_7.3

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1393
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2180288
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-1551.html