Amazon Linux AMI : tigervnc (ALAS-2023-1746)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176269

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of tigervnc installed on the remote host is prior to 1.8.0-21.35. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1746 advisory.

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This issue occurs due to a dangling pointer in DeepCopyPointerClasses that can be exploited by ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo() and ProcXkbGetDeviceInfo() to read and write into freed memory. This can lead to local privilege elevation on systems where the X server runs privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions. (CVE-2023-0494)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update tigervnc' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176269

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1746.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/24/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tigervnc-server-module, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tigervnc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tigervnc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tigervnc-server, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0494

Detections

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