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Re: various security issues in VNC related packages

From Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: various security issues in VNC related packages
Date 2019-11-04 10:20 +0100
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Hi Mike

Please go ahead. I will be off for some time due to a planned surgery so it
would be very good if you can fix this.

// Ola

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 08:55, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
wrote:

> Hi Ola,
>
> On  Mi 30 Okt 2019 21:20:50 CET, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I agree that the VNC situation in Debian is sub-optimal. Frankly speaking
> > not just in Debian. This popular software has diverged quite a lot with
> lot
> > of packages sharing similar code-base.
> >
> > I had a brief look at vnc4 as well. It does not seem to share the same
> code
> > base as libvncserver so it should not be affected.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > // Ola
>
> Ok. Thanks for that.
>
> I claimed tightvnc in dla-needed.txt. As you are the maintainer, let
> me know if you want to pick that one up instead (I am happy to include
> it in my fix upload series, if not).
>
> My plan is to go over VNC related packages over the next couple of
> days and also propose .debdiffs for stretch versions.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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various security issues in VNC related packages Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> - 2019-10-30 16:20 +0100
  Re: various security issues in VNC related packages Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> - 2019-10-30 21:40 +0100
    Re: various security issues in VNC related packages Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> - 2019-10-31 09:00 +0100
      Re: various security issues in VNC related packages Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> - 2019-11-04 10:20 +0100
        Re: various security issues in VNC related packages Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> - 2019-11-04 10:30 +0100

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