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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5884: Vulnerability in Remote Desktop

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-5884: Vulnerability in Remote Desktop

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/28/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

gtk-vnc before 0.7.0 does not properly check boundaries of subrectangle-containing tiles, which allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via the src x, y coordinates in a crafted (1) rre, (2) hextile, or (3) copyrect tile.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-desktop-gtk-vnc-0-7-0-0-175-3-29-0-2-0

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