RHSA-2024:0020 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: tigervnc security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · January 2, 2024
Updated · August 6, 2026
Topic
An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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):
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xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds memory reads/writes in XKB button actions (CVE-2023-6377)
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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.