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VPR Score: 5.9
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
The libvncserver package was updated to fix the following security issues :
- bsc#897031: fix several security issues :
- CVE-2014-6051: Integer overflow in MallocFrameBuffer() on client side.
- CVE-2014-6052: Lack of malloc() return value checking on client side.
- CVE-2014-6053: Server crash on a very large ClientCutText message.
- CVE-2014-6054: Server crash when scaling factor is set to zero.
- CVE-2014-6055: Multiple stack overflows in File Transfer feature.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :
zypper in -t patch sdksp4-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch sdksp3-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch slessp3-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :
zypper in -t patch slessp4-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch slessp3-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :
zypper in -t patch sledsp4-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch sledsp3-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :
zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-libvncserver-12227=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-libvncserver-12227=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.