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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-20023: LibVNCServer: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-20023: LibVNCServer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/19/2018
Created
08/13/2019
Added
08/13/2019
Modified
08/13/2019

Description

LibVNC before 8b06f835e259652b0ff026898014fc7297ade858 contains CWE-665: Improper Initialization vulnerability in VNC Repeater client code that allows attacker to read stack memory and can be abuse for information disclosure. Combined with another vulnerability, it can be used to leak stack memory layout and in bypassing ASLR

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-libvncserver

References

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