RHSA-2024:0629 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 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.

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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2256540 - CVE-2024-21885 xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent
• BZ - 2256542 - CVE-2024-21886 xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice
• BZ - 2256690 - CVE-2024-0229 xorg-x11-server: reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access
• BZ - 2257691 - CVE-2023-6816 xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer

CVEs

• CVE-2023-6816
• CVE-2024-0229
• CVE-2024-21885
• CVE-2024-21886

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important