Description
libvirt before 2.0.0 improperly disables password checking when the password on a VNC server is set to an empty string, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and establish a VNC session by connecting to the server.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180092 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZZMOMRXNPALA34XDF5NK363KDLAYSTL/ ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3613 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91562 ↗
- http://security.libvirt.org/2016/0001.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00055.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QTQF6LXKEEMJG4VOOCIAPJAD6ACBYP4W/ ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00024.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00054.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2577.html ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3576-1/ ↗