RHSA-2020:1497 — Security Advisory

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows users to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients.

Security Fix(es):

• tigervnc: Stack use-after-return due to incorrect usage of stack memory in ZRLEDecoder (CVE-2019-15691)

• tigervnc: Heap buffer overflow triggered from CopyRectDecoder due to incorrect value checks (CVE-2019-15692)

• tigervnc: Heap buffer overflow in TightDecoder::FilterGradient (CVE-2019-15693)

• tigervnc: Heap buffer overflow in DecodeManager::decodeRect (CVE-2019-15694)

• tigervnc: Stack buffer overflow in CMsgReader::readSetCursor (CVE-2019-15695)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.