Rick Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 00:39 +0200, wwp wrote:
Hello Rick,
On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:32:30 -0700 Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting. Several of my systems (both FC4 and FC5) will no longer
permit vncviewer connections after updates to vnc and vnc-server. There
Yes, after looking at the threads, it appears that it's been squawked to
Bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191692
I did get around it by uninstalling the -4.1.1-37 versions, going to
mirrors.kernel.org and pulling down the previous versions
(-4.1.1-36.fc5) and installing them. It all works again.
+++ do not go back to an older 4.1.1 version, it is susceptible to a
security fault even when the remote viewer does not provide the correct
password ! +++
2006-05-21 Sun: new security fixed vnc rpms in repo !!!
# rpm -q --changelog vnc-server
* Thu May 18 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@xxxxxxxxxx> 4.1.1-38.fc5
- really fixed authentication
* Wed May 17 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@xxxxxxxxxx> 4.1.1-37.fc5
- Fixed authentication (bug #191692), upstream patch
* Fri May 12 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnacova@xxxxxxxxxx> 4.1.1.-36.fc5
- fixed crash of Xvnc caused by a NULL pointer in interface (bug #187607)
- this also fixes crash of Xvnc when vpnc is running (bug #187069)
4.1.1-38 seems to work OK for me, as both vnc-viewer and vnc-server
DaveT.
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