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CVE-2014-8241

critical

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.

References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-8082

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-14

Updated: 2026-05-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

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

EPSS: 0.00431