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FreeBSD : gtk-vnc -- bounds checking vulnerabilities (79bbb8f8-f049-11e6-8a6a-bcaec565249c)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97107

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Daniel P. Berrange reports :

CVE-2017-5884 - fix bounds checking for RRE, hextile and copyrect encodings

CVE-2017-5885 - fix color map index bounds checking.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?be84c384

http://www.nessus.org/u?bd2e8ce8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 97107

File Name: freebsd_pkg_79bbb8f8f04911e68a6abcaec565249c.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Published: 2/13/2017

Updated: 1/1/2026

Supported Sensors: 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:freebsd:freebsd:gtk-vnc, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2017

Reference Information

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