High RHSA-2024:9901 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: tigervnc security update

Published Nov 25, 2024 · Updated Aug 7, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 8

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc-debuginfo	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc-icons	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc-license	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc-server	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc-server-applet	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc-server-minimal	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tigervnc-server-module	0:1.8.0-34.el7_9

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2024-9632

Xorg-x11-server: tigervnc: heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability

A flaw was found in the X.org server. Due to improperly tracked allocation size in _XkbSetCompatMap, a local attacker may be able to trigger a buffer overflow condition via a specially crafted payload, leading to denial of service or local privilege escalatio…

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

Oct 30, 2024

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317233
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_9901.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9632
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9632
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9632