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<glsa id="201612-36">
  <title>TigerVNC: Integer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>An integer overflow in TigerVNC might allow remote attackers to
    execute
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tigervnc</product>
  <announced>2016-12-13</announced>
  <revised count="2">2016-12-13</revised>
  <bug>534714</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/tigervnc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>TigerVNC is a high-performance VNC server/client.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>TigerVNC is impacted by the same vulnerability as found in
      CVE-2014-6051. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer
      overflow, was found in the way screen sizes were handled.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, utilizing a malicious VNC server, could execute
      arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the client, or
      cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All TigerVNC users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/tigervnc-1.4.2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6051">CVE-2014-6051</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8240">CVE-2014-8240</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-29T21:39:43Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-13T06:59:26Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
