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High ALSA-2024:2298 2 CVEs

Important: tigervnc security update

Published Apr 30, 2024 · 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: Use-after-free bug in DamageDestroy (CVE-2023-5574)
* xorg-x11-server: Use-after-free bug in DestroyWindow (CVE-2023-5380)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 tigervnc 1.13.1-8.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 tigervnc-icons 1.13.1-8.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 tigervnc-license 1.13.1-8.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 tigervnc-selinux 1.13.1-8.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 tigervnc-server 1.13.1-8.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 tigervnc-server-minimal 1.13.1-8.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 tigervnc-server-module 1.13.1-8.el9

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5380
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5574
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2244735
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2244736
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-2298.html