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alsa-2023:1551
Vulnerability from osv_almalinux
Published
2023-04-04 00:00
Modified
2023-04-20 11:47
Summary
Important: tigervnc security update
Details

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows users to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients.

Security Fix(es):

  • xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2023-1393)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References
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  "id": "ALSA-2023:1551",
  "modified": "2023-04-20T11:47:05Z",
  "published": "2023-04-04T00:00:00Z",
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2180288"
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  "related": [
    "CVE-2023-1393"
  ],
  "summary": "Important: tigervnc security update"
}



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