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…

PriorityP339critical9.8CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

3.06%

86.1th percentile

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

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	tigervnc	< tigervnc 1.7.0-2 (bookworm)	tigervnc 1.7.0-2 (bookworm)
redhat	enterprise_linux_desktop	—	—
redhat	enterprise_linux_hpc_node	—	—
redhat	enterprise_linux_server	—	—
redhat	enterprise_linux_workstation	—	—
tigervnc	tigervnc	>= 0 < 1.7.0-2	1.7.0-2
tigervnc	tigervnc	>= 0 < 1.7.0-2	1.7.0-2
tigervnc	tigervnc	>= 0 < 1.7.0-2	1.7.0-2
tigervnc	tigervnc	>= 0 < 1.7.0-2	1.7.0-2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.09.8CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv7.5HIGH

vendor_debian7.5HIGH

vendor_redhat7.5HIGH

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