RHSA-2026:23496 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION.

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: xwayland: X.Org X server: Denial of Service via integer underflow in XKB compatibility map handling (CVE-2026-33999)
• xwayland: xorg: X.Org X server: Information disclosure and denial of service via out-of-bounds read in XKB geometry processing. (CVE-2026-34000)
• xorg: xwayland: X.Org X server: Use-after-free vulnerability leads to server crash and potential memory corruption (CVE-2026-34001)
• xorg: xwayland: X.Org X server: Information disclosure or Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in XKB modifier map handling (CVE-2026-34002)
• xorg: xwayland: X.Org X server: Information exposure and denial of service via out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2026-34003)
• TigerVNC: x0vncserver: TigerVNC x0vncserver: Information disclosure, data manipulation, and denial of service via incorrect permissions (CVE-2026-34352)

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 - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2451106 - CVE-2026-33999 xorg: xwayland: X.Org X server: Denial of Service via integer underflow in XKB compatibility map handling
• BZ - 2451107 - CVE-2026-34000 xwayland: xorg: X.Org X server: Information disclosure and denial of service via out-of-bounds read in XKB geometry processing.
• BZ - 2451109 - CVE-2026-34001 xorg: xwayland: X.Org X server: Use-after-free vulnerability leads to server crash and potential memory corruption
• BZ - 2451112 - CVE-2026-34002 xorg: xwayland: X.Org X server: Information disclosure or Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in XKB modifier map handling
• BZ - 2451113 - CVE-2026-34003 xorg: xwayland: X.Org X server: Information exposure and denial of service via out-of-bounds memory access
• BZ - 2452022 - CVE-2026-34352 TigerVNC: x0vncserver: TigerVNC x0vncserver: Information disclosure, data manipulation, and denial of service via incorrect permissions

CVEs

• CVE-2026-33999
• CVE-2026-34000
• CVE-2026-34001
• CVE-2026-34002
• CVE-2026-34003
• CVE-2026-34352

References

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