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SUSE: CVE-2017-5884: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-5884: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/20/2018
Modified
09/18/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-gtk-vnc-devel
  • suse-upgrade-gtk-vnc-lang
  • suse-upgrade-gtk-vnc2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libgtk-vnc-1_0-0
  • suse-upgrade-libgtk-vnc-2_0-0
  • suse-upgrade-libgvnc-1_0-0
  • suse-upgrade-libgvncpulse-1_0-0
  • suse-upgrade-python-gtk-vnc
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gtkvnc-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gtkvnc-2_0
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gvnc-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gvncpulse-1_0

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