CVE-2006-2450 Information

Description

auth.c in LibVNCServer 0.7.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a request in which the client specifies an insecure security type such as \Type 1 - None\ which is accepted even if it is not offered by the server a different issue than CVE-2006-2369.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376824 http://libvncserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/libvncserver/libvncserver/libvncserver/auth.c?r1=1.11&r2=1.14&diff_format=u http://secunia.com/advisories/20940 http://secunia.com/advisories/21179 http://secunia.com/advisories/21349 http://secunia.com/advisories/21393 http://secunia.com/advisories/21405 http://secunia.com/advisories/24525 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-05.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-12.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-19.xml http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=431724&group_id=32584 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442986/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18977 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2797