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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0662-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0662-01 - 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-2023:0662-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0662
Issue date: 2023-02-08
CVE Names: CVE-2023-0494
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  1. Summary:

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

  1. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2165995 - CVE-2023-0494 xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation

  1. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
tigervnc-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.src.rpm

aarch64:
tigervnc-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm

noarch:
tigervnc-icons-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.noarch.rpm
tigervnc-license-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.noarch.rpm
tigervnc-selinux-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.noarch.rpm

ppc64le:
tigervnc-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
tigervnc-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
tigervnc-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-debugsource-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-minimal-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
tigervnc-server-module-debuginfo-1.12.0-9.el8_7.1.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/

  1. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0494
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

  1. 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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