Bug 702470 (CVE-2011-1775) - CVE-2011-1775 tigervnc: vncviewer can send password to server without proper validation of the X.509 certificate
Summary: CVE-2011-1775 tigervnc: vncviewer can send password to server without proper ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-1775
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: Embargoed702289 702672 Engineering702719
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-05 18:21 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-10-18 22:12:08 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0871 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: tigervnc security update 2011-06-15 10:06:45 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2011-05-05 18:21:42 UTC 
It was reported [1] that vncviewer could prompt for, and send, authentication credentials to a remote server without first properly validating the X.509 certificate.  This could allow a malicious server to obtain a client's credentials because the client does not indicate to the user that a certificate is bad or missing.

A proposed patch [2] is being discussed.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01342.html
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01347.html
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-05-06 14:33:26 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
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-05-06 14:35:45 UTC 
Created tigervnc tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-15 [bug 702672]
Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2011-05-09 22:54:56 UTC 
This has been assigned the name CVE-2011-1775.
Comment 6 Kurt Seifried 2011-05-09 23:52:13 UTC 
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.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-06-15 10:06:50 UTC 
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
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