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Debian: CVE-2017-18635: novnc -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-18635: novnc -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/25/2019
Created
10/08/2019
Added
10/07/2019
Modified
03/13/2020

Description

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC before 0.6.2 in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the status field, such as the VNC server name.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-novnc

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