CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8241
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging failure to check a malloc return value, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6052.
Affected configurations
• tigervnc tigervnc
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux hpc node 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300 Mailing List
- 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/70390 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312 Issue Tracking
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300 Mailing List
- 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/70390 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312 Issue Tracking
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html Third Party Advisory