USN-4636-1: LibVNCServer, Vino vulnerability

17 November 2020

LibVNCServer and Vino could be made to crash.

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Details

It was discovered that LibVNCServer incorrectly handled certain internals.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Vino package ships with a LibVNCServer source and all listed releases were
affected for this package.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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