CVE-2014-8241

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference7 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Redhat Enterprise Linux DesktopRedhat Enterprise Linux HPC NodeRedhat Enterprise Linux Server+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 14
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶Debiantigervnc< 1.7.0-2+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-gq2g-qwmw-m5q3: XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging failure to check a malloc return v↗2022-05-17
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OSV
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 v↗2016-12-14
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CVEList
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 v↗2016-12-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
tigervnc: NULL pointer dereference flaw in XRegion↗2014-10-10
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Debian
CVE-2014-8241: tigervnc - XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (NULL...↗2014
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-8241 tigervnc: NULL pointer dereference flaw in XRegion↗2014-10-10
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CVE-2014-8241 (CRITICAL CVSS 9.8) | XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote V | cvebase.io