A divide-by-zero flaw was reported in LibVNCServer's scaling factor handling. A VNC client could use this flaw to cause the VNC server to crash. Upstream commit: https://github.com/newsoft/libvncserver/commit/05a9bd41a8ec0a9d580a8f420f41718bdd235446
Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank oCERT for reporting this issue. oCERT acknowledges Nicolas RUFF as the original reporter.
Public now: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/639
Created libvncserver tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1145878] Affects: epel-5 [bug 1145879] Affects: epel-7 [bug 1145880]
Created krfb tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1145883]
krfb advisory: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140923-1.txt
libvncserver-0.9.10-0.6.20140718git9453be42.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
libvncserver-0.9.10-0.6.20140718git9453be42.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
libvncserver-0.9.10-0.6.20140718git9453be42.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
krfb-4.11.5-4.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
libvncserver-0.9.10-0.6.20140718git9453be42.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
IssueDescription: A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the way LibVNCServer handled the scaling factor when it was set to "0". A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the VNC server using a malicious VNC client.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:1826 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1826.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:1827 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1827.html