CVE-2020-29074

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-29074
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-25 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
Descriptionscan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPC_CREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application X11vnc Project X11vnc 0.9.16 All All All
Application X11vnc Project X11vnc 0.9.16 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: x11vnc-0.9.16-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2490-1] x11vnc security update MLIST lists.debian.org
scan: limit access to shared memory segments to current user · LibVNC/x11vnc@69eeb9f · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: x11vnc-0.9.16-6.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: x11vnc-0.9.16-3.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: x11vnc-0.9.16-3.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4799-1 x11vnc DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: x11vnc-0.9.16-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: x11vnc-0.9.16-6.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 281569 Fedora Security Update for x11vnc (FEDORA-2021-c5b679877e)
  • 281570 Fedora Security Update for x11vnc (FEDORA-2021-93911302d6)
  • 281571 Fedora Security Update for x11vnc (FEDORA-2021-069c0c3950)
  • 501331 Alpine Linux Security Update for x11vnc
  • 501722 Alpine Linux Security Update for x11vnc
  • 505576 Alpine Linux Security Update for x11vnc

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