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vino: denial of service

Package(s):

vino

CVE #(s):

CVE-2013-5745

Created:

October 1, 2013

Updated:

October 2, 2013

Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Jonathan Claudius discovered that Vino incorrectly handled closing invalid connections. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Vino to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

Alerts:

Ubuntu

USN-1980-1

2013-09-30

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