Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1716-1 vnc4 -- integer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 31 Jan 2009
- Affected Packages:
- vnc4
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 513531.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4770. - More information:
-
It was discovered that xvnc4viewer, a virtual network computing client software for X, is prone to an integer overflow via a malicious encoding value that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1.
For the unstable (sid) distribution this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1+X4.3.0-31.
For the testing (lenny) distribution this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your vnc4 packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4_4.1.1+X4.3.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4_4.1.1+X4.3.0.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_amd64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/xvnc4viewer_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vnc4/vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.