Bug 1378922 - tigervnc-server needs to be rebuilt to re-enable listen-on-tcp behavior in RHEL 6.8
Summary: tigervnc-server needs to be rebuilt to re-enable listen-on-tcp behavior in RH...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: tigervnc
Version: 6.8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jan Grulich
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-23 14:04 UTC by amit yadav
Modified: 2020-04-15 14:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-03-21 09:52:56 UTC
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Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 2651841 0 None None None 2016-09-23 14:30:53 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0630 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: tigervnc security and bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:29:39 UTC

Description amit yadav 2016-09-23 14:04:04 UTC
Description of problem:
When we configure Xvnc server, it by default listen for connections for a VNC client on TCP ports 5800+x, 5900+x, and 6000+x. If I update tigervnc-server package to tigervnc-server-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64, it stops listening on 6000+x TCP port. Which was not the default behavior with tigervnc-server-1.1.0-16.el6.x86_64.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tigervnc-server-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install tigervnc-server-1.1.0-16.el6.x86_64 package and run Xvnc server on RHEL6 system and check if system is listening on TCP port 60XX: 

 # vncserver :99

 # ss -nlt
 State       Recv-Q Send-Q    Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port 
 LISTEN      0      128       *:59977             *:*     
 LISTEN      0      50        *:9102              *:*     
 LISTEN      0      5         *:5999              *:*     
 LISTEN      0      64        *:40175             *:*     
 LISTEN      0      128       *:111               *:*     
 LISTEN      0      128       *:6099              *:*    <<=====  
 LISTEN      0      128       *:22                *:*

2. Stop Xvnc server and update tigervnc-server to tigervnc-server-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64 

 $ vncserver -kill :99
 # yum update tigervnc-server

3. Restart Xvnc process and check TCP port 60XX status:

 $ vncserver :99

 $ ss -nlt
 State       Recv-Q    Send-Q   Local Address:Port   Peer Address:Port 
 LISTEN      0         128      *:59977              *:*     
 LISTEN      0          50      *:9102               *:*     
 LISTEN      0           5      *:5999               *:*     
 LISTEN      0          64      *:40175              *:*     
 LISTEN      0         128      *:111                *:*     
 LISTEN      0         128      *:22                 *:*    

Actual results:
After updating tigervnc-server-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64, it stops listening on 6000+x TCP port. 

Expected results:
It should listen on 6000+x TCP port. 

Additional info:
Same issue was reported for RHEL7 and being tracked in following bugzilla:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304646

Comment 3 Jan Grulich 2016-09-29 08:14:43 UTC
Fixed in tigervnc-1.1.0-19.el6.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 09:52:56 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0630.html


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