RHSA-2024:2038 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: tigervnc security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 25, 2024

Updated · August 7, 2026

Topic

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.

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: Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIGetSelectedEvents (CVE-2024-31080)

  • xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice (CVE-2024-31081)

  • xorg-x11-server: User-after-free in ProcRenderAddGlyphs (CVE-2024-31083)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:2038 — Red Hat Security Advisory: tigervnc security update | PulseLinux