RHBA-2025:8871 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

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.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• x0vncserver on RHEL 9.6 can no longer auth from passwordfile [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-93729)
• Fix inetd mode not working introduced with Tigervnc 1.15.0 [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-86513)
• TigerVNC requires maximum 8 chars for password (JIRA:RHEL-89430)
• Xvnc: "plain" security scheme should have a mechanism to force multiple connections to log in as the same user [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-91104)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• RHEL-86513 - Fix inetd mode not working introduced with Tigervnc 1.15.0 [rhel-8.10.z]
• RHEL-89430 - TigerVNC requires maximum 8 chars for password

CVEs

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References

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