CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1775
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-05-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The CSecurityTLS::processMsg function in common/rfb/CSecurityTLS.cxx in the vncviewer component in TigerVNC 1.1beta1 does not properly verify the server's X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a TLS VNC server via an arbitrary certificate.
Affected configurations
• tigervnc tigervnc 1.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060567.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/06/2 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/09/7 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44939 secunia.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01342.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01345.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01347.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0871.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47738 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702470 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702672 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060567.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/06/2 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/09/7 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44939 secunia.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01342.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01345.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01347.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0871.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47738 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702470 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702672 bugzilla.redhat.com