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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.890831
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian LTS: Security Advisory for gtk-vnc (DLA-831-1)
Summary:Josef Gajdusek discovered two vulnerabilities in gtk-vnc, a VNC viewer;widget for GTK:;;CVE-2017-5884;;Fix bounds checking for RRE, hextile & copyrec encodings. This bug;allowed a remote server to cause a denial of service by buffer;overflow via a carefully crafted message containing subrectangles;outside the drawing area.;;CVE-2017-5885;;Correctly validate color map range indexes. This bug allowed a;remote server to cause a denial of service by buffer overflow via;a carefully crafted message with out-of-range colour values.
Description:Summary:
Josef Gajdusek discovered two vulnerabilities in gtk-vnc, a VNC viewer
widget for GTK:

CVE-2017-5884

Fix bounds checking for RRE, hextile & copyrec encodings. This bug
allowed a remote server to cause a denial of service by buffer
overflow via a carefully crafted message containing subrectangles
outside the drawing area.

CVE-2017-5885

Correctly validate color map range indexes. This bug allowed a
remote server to cause a denial of service by buffer overflow via
a carefully crafted message with out-of-range colour values.

Affected Software/OS:
gtk-vnc on Debian Linux

Solution:
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
0.5.0-3.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gtk-vnc packages.

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-5884
BugTraq ID: 96016
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96016
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LGPQ5MQR6SN4DYTEFACHP2PP5RR26KYK/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/03/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/05/5
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:2258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2258
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-5885
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