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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-21247: Moderate: libvncserver security update (ALSA-2021-1811)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-21247: Moderate: libvncserver security update (ALSA-2021-1811)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/17/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13. There is an information leak (of uninitialized memory contents) in the libvncclient/rfbproto.c ConnectToRFBRepeater function.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libvncserver
  • alma-upgrade-libvncserver-devel

References

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