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Bug#774624: xtightvncviewer: Crash (stack smashing) of listening vncviewer



Control: tags -1 = wontfix

On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:47:25 +0100 Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> Package: tightvnc
> Severity: important
> 
> TightVNC includes the same bug which was reported for ssvnc
> (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774622).
> 
> As the related source code is also identical, the fix given
> in that bug report also applies to package tightvnc.
> 

Note in bug 774622:

On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:56:28 +0100 Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> The crash is triggered by the IPv6 connection used in our test
> scenario: 
> struct sockaddr_in is only sufficient for IPv4, but IPv6 needs struct
> sockaddr_in6.
> 
[...]

Thightvnc is old software not supporting IPv6 at all. Upstream does not
maintain Thightvnc on Linux any more. Thus, do not expect IPv6 support
to show up in Tightvnc.

Sven

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