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openSUSE Security Update : tigervnc (openSUSE-2020-1841)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142537

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for tigervnc fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2020-26117: Server certificates were stored as certiticate authorities, allowing malicious owners of these certificates to impersonate any server after a client had added an exception (bsc#1176733)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected tigervnc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176733

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142537

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1841.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2020

Updated: 11/20/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26117

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxvnc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxvnc1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxvnc1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tigervnc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tigervnc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tigervnc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tigervnc-x11vnc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-xvnc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-xvnc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-xvnc-java, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-xvnc-module, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-xvnc-module-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-xvnc-novnc, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26117