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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:10:55 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: information leak in vino
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On 09/13/2012 04:48 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> This one is a bit older, not sure why it hasn't been dealt with or
> reported earlier, but just copying my text from our bug:
>
>
> It was reported that vino transmits all clipboard activity to
> anything listening on port 5900, including to clients that have
> not authenticated. If a user were to have vino enabled (including
> requiring authentication), a remote user could access the port and
> see anything the user added to the clipboard sent over the port.
>
> To reproduce, enable vino with password protection (i.e. execute
> vino-preferences). Connect to the VNC port (either locally or
> remotely), for instance:
>
> % nc -4 odvfc17 5900 RFB 003.007 @??zsh: command not found:
> zsh:@??[vdanen@...fc17]
>
> The above two bits of output are from copying in the GNOME
> terminal, locally, on the system running vino.
>
> The above was tested with Fedora 17's 3.4.2 version; the report
> indicates that 2.32 on Gentoo and 2.28 on Debian are also
> vulnerable.
>
> References:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434930
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678434
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857250
>
> I did a quick attempt to reproduce this with 2.13.5 but was unable
> to reproduce it, so somewhere between 2.13.5 and 2.28 this became
> a problem. I've not dug into it further to see which version
> introduced this.
>
> There's no response in the upstream bug either, so no patches are
> available that I can see.
Please use CVE-2012-4429 for this issue.
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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