RHSA-2024:0597 — Security Advisory

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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.

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: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer (CVE-2023-6816)

• xorg-x11-server: reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2024-0229)

• xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (CVE-2024-21885)

• xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice (CVE-2024-21886)

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.