ssvnc: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

The Enhanced TightVNC Viewer, SSVNC, adds encryption security to VNC connections.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ssvnc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for ssvnc. We recommend that users unmerge ssvnc:

 # emerge --unmerge "net-misc/ssvnc"

NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining ssvnc have discontinued support at this time. It may be possible that a new Gentoo developer will update ssvnc at a later date. An alternative may be a manual SSH tunnel.