glsa-202411-01.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202411-01">
    <title>Neat VNC: Authentication Bypass</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Neat VNC, which can lead to authentication bypass.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">neatvnc</product>
    <announced>2024-11-06</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-11-06</revised>
    <bug>937140</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="gui-libs/neatvnc" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">0.8.1</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.1</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Neat VNC is a liberally licensed VNC server library that&#39;s intended to be fast and neat.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Neat VNC allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a request in which the client specifies an insecure security type such as &#34;Type 1 - None&#34;, which is accepted even if it is not offered by the server, as originally demonstrated using a long password.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="high">
        <p>A remote attacker can opt not to use any authentication method and access the VNC server.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Neat VNC users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=gui-libs/neatvnc-0.8.1"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-11-06T10:04:44.010327Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-11-06T10:04:44.016422Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>