RHSA-2023:7886 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: tigervnc security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · December 20, 2023

Updated · August 6, 2026

Topic

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Description

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):

  • xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds memory reads/writes in XKB button actions (CVE-2023-6377)

  • xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and RRChangeProviderProperty (CVE-2023-6478)

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.

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