Bug 702470 (CVE-2011-1775)
Summary: | CVE-2011-1775 tigervnc: vncviewer can send password to server without proper validation of the X.509 certificate | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vincent Danen <vdanen> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | atkac, kseifried, kurt, security-response-team |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2011-10-18 22:12:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 702289, 702672, 702719 | ||
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Description
Vincent Danen
2011-05-05 18:21:42 UTC
This flaw does not affect older versions of tigervnc due to X.509 certificate handling being a new feature (new to the forthcoming 1.1.0): http://tigervnc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tigervnc?view=revision&revision=4200 Created tigervnc tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-15 [bug 702672] This has been assigned the name CVE-2011-1775. Confirmed Fedora 14 is not vulnerable, they ship 1.0.90 which is labeled "1.0.90 (1.1beta1)" on tigervnc download sit, but the 1.0.90 they ship is older (svn4123) and does not have the X509 support. This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:0871 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0871.html |