USN-3171-1: LibVNCServer vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
11th January, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its Several security issues were fixed in LibVNCServer.\n<\/p>\n Josef Gajdusek discovered that the LibVNCServer client library incorrectly The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following To update your system, please follow these instructions: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n CVE-2016-9941<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2016-9942<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3171-1: LibVNCServer vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3171-1: LibVNCServer vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3171-1 11th January, 2017 libvncserver vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in LibVNCServer. Software description libvncserver – vnc server library Details Josef Gajdusek discovered that the LibVNCServer client library incorrectlyhandled certain FrameBufferUpdate messages. If a user were tricked intoconnecting to a malicious server, an attacker could use this issue to causea denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9941,CVE-2016-9942) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: libvncserver1 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.10.1 libvncclient1 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libvncserver1 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.04.1 libvncclient1 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libvncserver0 0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libvncserver0 0.9.8.2-2ubuntu1.2 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. In general, a [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13236,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/13236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}libvncserver vulnerabilities<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
Software description<\/h3>\n
\n
\n – vnc server library<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
handled certain FrameBufferUpdate messages. If a user were tricked into
connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could use this issue to cause
a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9941<\/a>,
CVE-2016-9942<\/a>)<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
\n
\n 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.10.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.10.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.04.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 0.9.10+dfsg-3ubuntu0.16.04.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 0.9.8.2-2ubuntu1.2<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\nhttps:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.\n<\/p>\nReferences<\/h3>\n