SUSE SLED12: gtk-vnc-devel / gtk-vnc-lang / gtk-vnc2-devel / libgtk-vnc-1_0-0 / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3125-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 153468

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3125-1 advisory.

- CVE-2017-5885: Correctly validate color map range indexes (bsc#1024268).
- CVE-2017-5884: Fix bounds checking for RRE, hextile & copyrect encodings (bsc#1024266).
- Fix crash when opening connection from a GSocketAddress (bsc#1046782).
- Fix possible crash on connection failure (bsc#1188292).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1024266

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1024268

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1046782

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188292

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5884

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5885

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3ec51b3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 153468

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3125-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5885

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgtk-vnc-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gtk-vnc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gtk-vnc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgvncpulse-1_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gtkvnc-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgvnc-1_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gvncpulse-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gtk-vnc2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gtk-vnc-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgtk-vnc-1_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gvnc-1_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gtkvnc-1_0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5884, CVE-2017-5885

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3125-1