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tigervnc, xorg security update

2023-02-2016:16:26
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2023:0675

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.

X.Org is an open-source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.

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.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2023-February/086373.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2023-March/086378.html

Affected packages:
tigervnc
tigervnc-icons
tigervnc-license
tigervnc-server
tigervnc-server-applet
tigervnc-server-minimal
tigervnc-server-module
xorg-x11-server-Xdmx
xorg-x11-server-Xephyr
xorg-x11-server-Xnest
xorg-x11-server-Xorg
xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
xorg-x11-server-common
xorg-x11-server-devel
xorg-x11-server-source

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0675