Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1977-1 libvncserver -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 30 Oct 2019
- Affected Packages:
- libvncserver
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 943793.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-15681. - More information:
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LibVNC contained a memory leak (CWE-655) in VNC server code, which allowed an attacker to read stack memory and could be abused for information disclosure.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9+dfsg2-6.1+deb8u6.We recommend that you upgrade your libvncserver packages.
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