CVE-2014-8241
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2016-12-14
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Affected products
- Enterprise Linux Desktop (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Hpc Node (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Server (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Workstation (Redhat)
- Tigervnc (Tigervnc)
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
