Only the first eight characters of vncpasswd are significant.
Issue
- Vnc session accepts any character as password input after first 8 characters.
- Random password entries accepted above first 8
vncpasswdcharacters, only first 8 characters set viavncpasswdare parsed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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