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ELSA-2015-2233 Moderate: Oracle Linux tigervnc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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ELSA-2015-2233 Moderate: Oracle Linux tigervnc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/16/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/26/2015
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging failure to check a malloc return value, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6052.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tigervnc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tigervnc-icons
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tigervnc-license
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tigervnc-server
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tigervnc-server-applet
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tigervnc-server-minimal
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tigervnc-server-module

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