VNC authentication weakness

VNC authentication weakness --------------------------- VNC uses a DES-encrypted challenge-response system to avoid passing passwords over the wire in plaintext. However, it seems that a weakness in the way the challenge is generated by some servers would make this useless. The following program...

Sun SunPCi II VNC Software 2.3 - Password Disclosure

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5146/info The SunPCi II card is a co-processor for a number of Solaris based systems, and provides PC software compatibility, including the ability to run Microsoft Windows. Driver software is available for the SunPCi card, including a Virtual Network...

Legato Networker vulnerability

There's a weakness in the authentification scheme of Legato Networker Software prior to version 6.1. When a client contacts the server, it announces in clear text via RPC his hostname or ip adress , his username and the user's groups. Then the server tries to resolve the ip adress of the machine...