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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0623-01
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0623-01 - Virtual Network Computing 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. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: tigervnc security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0623-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0623
Issue date: 2023-02-07
CVE Names: CVE-2023-0494
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- Summary:
An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0
Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
- Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
- Description:
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: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege
elevation (CVE-2023-0494)
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.
- Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
- Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2165995 - CVE-2023-0494 xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation
- Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0):
Source:
tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.src.rpm
aarch64:
tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
tigervnc-icons-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.noarch.rpm
tigervnc-license-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.noarch.rpm
tigervnc-selinux-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
tigervnc-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.11.0-22.el9_0.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
- References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0494
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
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