DSA-3081-1 libvncserver -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3081-1 libvncserver -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Nov 2014

Affected Packages:

libvncserver

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 762745.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-6051, CVE-2014-6052, CVE-2014-6053, CVE-2014-6054, CVE-2014-6055.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvncserver, a library to implement VNC server functionality. These vulnerabilities might result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service in both the client and the server side.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.9+dfsg-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.9+dfsg-6.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvncserver packages.