CVE-2014-8241
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 3.1% (pctl 87)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.06% — more likely to be exploited than 87% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-476 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2016-12-14 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (5)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| redhat | enterprise linux desktop |
| redhat | enterprise linux hpc node |
| redhat | enterprise linux server |
| redhat | enterprise linux workstation |
| tigervnc | tigervnc |
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
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