CVE-2014-8241
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.06% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-12-14 22:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-10-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 834149c0e5169414dd451039c908d64da128fc769e7cc890a97d41c5a1780312
05 Affected products
06 References
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20141010 Request for CVE assignment for tigervnc affected by similar flaws as in CVE-2014-6051 and CVE-2014-6052 of libvncserverhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2015:2233https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
- www.securityfocus.com70390http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20141011 Re: Request for CVE assignment for tigervnc affected by similar flaws as in CVE-2014-6051 and CVE-2014-6052 of libvncserverhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- tigervnc Fixed in 1.7.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- tigervnc Fixed in 1.7.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- tigervnc Fixed in 1.7.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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