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CVE request tigervnc: vnc server can crash when TLS handshake terminates early


From: Matthias Gerstner <mgerstner () suse de>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:11:56 +0100

Hello,

the Xvnc server from tigervnc can crash when a client terminates a TLS
connection early. This is due to invalid initialization/deinitialization
order of the GnuTLS library.

Upstream commit:

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/8aa4bc53206c2430bbf0c8f4b642f59a379ee649

Reference:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023012

This issue was reported/found by Ruediger Meier, Michal Srb (SUSE
Linux).

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