CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8240
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-10-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Integer overflow in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to screen size handling, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6051.
Affected configurations
• tigervnc tigervnc 0.0.90
• tigervnc tigervnc 0.0.91
• tigervnc tigervnc 1.0.0
• tigervnc tigervnc 1.0.1
• tigervnc tigervnc 1.1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300 seclists.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70391 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96947 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-36 security.gentoo.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300 seclists.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70391 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96947 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-36 security.gentoo.org