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.
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 2016-12-14
Updated: 2025-04-12
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Severity: High
Base Score: 9.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: Critical
EPSS: 0.00431