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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-20839: Moderate: libvncserver security update (ALSA-2021-1811)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-20839: Moderate: libvncserver security update (ALSA-2021-1811)

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

Description

libvncclient/sockets.c in LibVNCServer before 0.9.13 has a buffer overflow via a long socket filename.

Solution(s)

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

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