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vino: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):vino CVE #(s):CVE-2011-1164 CVE-2011-1165 CVE-2012-4429
Created:January 22, 2013 Updated:February 7, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

It was found that Vino transmitted all clipboard activity on the system running Vino to all clients connected to port 5900, even those who had not authenticated. A remote attacker who is able to access port 5900 on a system running Vino could use this flaw to read clipboard data without authenticating. (CVE-2012-4429)

In certain circumstances, the vino-preferences dialog box incorrectly indicated that Vino was only accessible from the local network. This could confuse a user into believing connections from external networks are not allowed (even when they are allowed). With this update, vino-preferences no longer displays connectivity and reachable information. (CVE-2011-1164)

There was no warning that Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) was used to open ports on a user's network router when the "Configure network automatically to accept connections" option was enabled (it is disabled by default) in the Vino preferences. This update changes the option's description to avoid the risk of a UPnP router configuration change without the user's consent. (CVE-2011-1165)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0169-01 2013-01-21
CentOS CESA-2013:0169 2013-01-22
Ubuntu USN-1701-1 2013-01-22
Scientific Linux SL-vino-20130122 2013-01-22
Oracle ELSA-2013-0169 2013-01-22
Mageia MGASA-2013-0028 2013-02-06

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vino: multiple vulnerabilities

Posted Feb 6, 2013 2:18 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

This alert probably should have noted that Vino is a VNC server, and that's why it's listening to 5900.

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