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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2451-1 libvncserver -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

15 Nov 2020

Affected Packages:

libvncserver

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-25708.

More information:

An issue has been found in libvncserver, an API to write one's own VNC server. Due to some missing checks, a divide by zero could happen, which could result in a denial of service.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.11+dfsg-1.3~deb9u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvncserver packages.

For the detailed security status of libvncserver please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libvncserver

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