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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:

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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