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Secunia Advisory SA15742

RealVNC Information Disclosure Weakness
Secunia Advisory SA15742
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Release Date 2005-06-20
   
Popularity 13,482 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Exposure of system information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
RealVNC Viewer 4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

class101 has reported a weakness in RealVNC, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of various system information.

The weakness is caused due to different versions responding differently to requests. This can be exploited to disclose the edition of RealVNC that is running and the OS (Operating System) type.


Solution
Filter incoming VNC traffic at the firewall.

Provided and/or discovered by
class101

Original Advisory
http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2005-June/051336.html

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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