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Fedora 15 : tigervnc-1.0.90-4.fc15 (2011-6838)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54633

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes following issue :

 - vncviewer could have sent user password to VNC server without proper validation of the server's X.509 certificate when secure X.509 authentication was requested (CVE-2011-1775)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tigervnc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702672

http://www.nessus.org/u?9d3e14fb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54633

File Name: fedora_2011-6838.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tigervnc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1775

BID: 47738

FEDORA: 2011-6838