Gentoo: 200302-16 Critical: VNC Insecure Cookie Generation Exploit

 
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-16
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From Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2003:041-12:

"The VNC server acts as an X server, but the script for starting it
generates an MIT X cookie (which is used for X authentication) without
using a strong enough random number generator. This could allow an
attacker to be able to more easily guess the authentication cookie."

Read the full advisory at:
https://sso.redhat.com/auth/realms/redhat-external/protocol/saml

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-misc/vnc upgrade to vnc-3.3.6-r1 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge -u vnc
emerge clean

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