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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2014-8241)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way TigerVNC handled screen sizes. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the client. (CVE-2014-8240)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in TigerVNC's XRegion. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash.
(CVE-2014-8241)

The tigervnc packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.3.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

This update also fixes the following bug :

  - The position of the mouse cursor in the VNC session was     not correctly communicated to the VNC viewer, resulting     in cursor misplacement. The method of displaying the     remote cursor has been changed, and cursor movements on     the VNC server are now accurately reflected on the VNC     client.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way TigerVNC handled screen sizes. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the client.

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in TigerVNC's XRegion. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash.

Updated tigervnc packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows users to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients. The tigervnc packages contain a client which allows users to connect to other desktops running a VNC server.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way TigerVNC handled screen sizes. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the client. (CVE-2014-8240)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in TigerVNC's XRegion. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash.
(CVE-2014-8241)

The tigervnc packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.3.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1199453)

This update also fixes the following bug :

* The position of the mouse cursor in the VNC session was not correctly communicated to the VNC viewer, resulting in cursor misplacement. The method of displaying the remote cursor has been changed, and cursor movements on the VNC server are now accurately reflected on the VNC client. (BZ#1100661)

All tigervnc users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2233 advisory.

    - Resolves: bz#1248422       CVE-2014-8240 CVE-2014-8241 tigervnc: various flaws

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
218575	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-8241	Nessus	Misc.	critical
87576	Scientific Linux Security Update : tigervnc on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	critical
87349	Amazon Linux AMI : tigervnc (ALAS-2015-623)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
87144	CentOS 7 : tigervnc (CESA-2015:2233)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	critical
87093	Oracle Linux 7 : tigervnc (ELSA-2015-2233)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
86976	RHEL 7 : tigervnc (RHSA-2015:2233)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

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