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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29074: x11vnc wrong permissions to shared memory

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29074: x11vnc wrong permissions to shared memory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/25/2020
Created
01/06/2021
Added
01/05/2021
Modified
01/05/2021

Description

scan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPC_CREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-x11vnc

References

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