CVE-2014-8241
CRITICALTigerVNC - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in XRegion
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0306
EPSS Percentile
86.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (5)
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
tigervnc/tigervnc
Published
Dec 14, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026