CVE-2014-8241
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Red Hat Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.7.0-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.7.0-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.7.0-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.7.0-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.7.0-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8241
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.